Maksymilian Fajans


Maksymilian Fajans was a Polish artist, lithographer and photographer. Fajans won several prizes at the International Photographic Exhibition organized in 1865 in Berlin and, in 1873, at the Vienna Exhibition.

Life

Fajans was born in Sieradz to Jewish parents and studied at Warsaw's School of Fine Arts in 1844–49, and between 1850 and 1853 he worked and stationed in Paris, where he was a pupil of the Dutch–French painter Ary Scheffer.
Fajans established one of the first photography studios in Warsaw. In 1851–63 he published 14 folios of Wizerunki polskie after his own drawings, and in 1851–61, 24 folios of Wzory sztuki średniowiecznej after drawings by L. Łepkowski, B. Podczaszyński and others.
In chromolithography he published Kwiaty i poezje, illustrations for albums and books. He also collaborated with the publisher, Samuel Orgelbrand. In addition, he worked in utilitarian graphics.

Portraits

Fajans's portraits of notable contemporaries included: