Józef Pankiewicz

Józef Pankiewicz (1866–1940) was a Polish painter and printmaker who, alongside Podkowiński, introduced French Impressionism to Polish painting in the early 1890s. Trained in Warsaw and Saint Petersburg, with extended Paris stays absorbing Impressionism and later Cézanne, Pankiewicz spent his mature career between Kraków, Paris, and the south of France. He taught at the Kraków Academy and ran a Paris branch of the school in Montparnasse, training a generation of Polish modernists known as the Kapists.

Pankiewicz moved across his career from luminous Impressionist plein-air to a Cézannesque structural manner, painting still lifes, southern French landscapes, and refined portraits. His later work emphasizes architectural color volume.

Pankiewicz introduced Impressionism to Polish painting and trained the Kapists, the most important Polish modernist generation of the inter-war period.