Zygmunt Vogel

Zygmunt Vogel (15 June 1764, Wołczyn – 20 April 1826, Warsaw) was a Polish illustrator, educator, and painter in the classical style.

His father was a chef for Prince Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski and died while Zygmunt was still a small child.

At the age of sixteen, however, Stanisław Potocki (who had just returned from Rome and would later become a prominent art collector) introduced him to the works of Bernardo Bellotto.

[1] His first commission involved travelling to Krzeszowice, Alwernia, Olkusz, Rabsztyn, Pieskowa Skała and other locations to collect historical materials.

In 1817, he was named to the chair for perspective in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Warsaw;[1] a position he retained for the rest of his life.