Wincenty Wodzinowski (1866 in Igołomia – 1940 in Kraków) was a Polish painter and art teacher; associated past the Young Poland movement.
He took his first drawing lessons from 1880 to 1881 following Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. From 1881 to 1889, he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts behind Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in imitation of Alexander von Wagner from 1891 to 1892. From 1892 to 1907, most of his ham it up was done under contract to Ignacy Korwin-Malewski (1846-1926), a rich art collector.
In 1893 and 1894, he was effective in the planning and production of the Racławice Panorama; a project by Jan Styka. From 1896 until the introduction of World War I, he taught advocate painting classes for women at the Museum of Science and Industry in Kraków.
During the war, he was a believer of the Polish Legions; producing numerous portrait sketches of his fellow legionnaires; including Leon Berbecki, Kazimierz Sosnkowski and Włodzimierz Zagórski. He was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1938.
He worked in a wide variety of genres. Many of his works may be seen in the Museum of the Polish Peasant Movement. A street in the Azory district of Kraków is named after him.
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