Nikifor Krynicki

Also known as Nykyfor Epifaniy Drovniak, Epifanii Drovniak, Nikifor Dworniak, Nikifor, Nykyfor

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Type: Person
Country: PL
Active from: 1943-06-28

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Person.image: Nikifor Krynicki 03.jpg
Person.caption: Nikifor in 1966
Person.occupation: painter

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Second Polish Republic
Place of birth: Krynica-Zdrój
Place of death: Krynica-Zdrój
Occupation: draftsperson
Genre: naïve art
Image: Nikifor Krynicki 03.jpg

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Commons category: Nykyfor Epifaniy Drovniak
date of birth: 1895-05-21
date of death: 1968-10-10
cause of death: tuberculosis
manner of death: natural causes
Commons Creator page: Nikifor Krynicki
place of burial: Krynica-Zdrój
described at URL: artyzm.com/artysta.php?id=1844
name in native language: Nikifor Krynicki

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Nikifor (21 May 1895, Krynica, Austria-Hungary – 10 October 1968, Folusz, Poland), also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak (Epifaniusz Drowniak)1, was a Lemko naïve painter. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures – on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. The topics of his art include self-portraits and panoramas of Krynica, with its spas and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Underestimated for most of his life, in his late days he became famous as a naïve painter.

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