Tadeusz Rychter

Tadeusz Rychter (c. 1873 in Lviv – 1943 in Warsaw) was a Polish early twentieth-century artist best remembered for his watercolors of the Holy Land.

[1] Rychter studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków,[2] where he became the contributing artist to the legendary Zielony Balonik art-and-literary cabaret.

[2] While still in Europe, the two worked with Rudolf Steiner on the construction of the first Goetheanum in Switzerland and were members of the artist's group "Aenigma".

[2][3] In Palestine, Rychter earned a living restoring art in old churches, and selling watercolor paintings of Christian holy sites to tourists.

[2] In 1935 Tadeusz Rychter applied for membership in the Palestine Artists' Association but was turned down because of his religion.

Tadeusz Rychter with wife Bronisława, circa 1900. An undated, hand-written note on the photograph reads: The work has ravaged her health, and her husband, mistreated her. Frombork Museum