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(1) Teodor (Bogdan) Lubieniecki
(b Szczecin, 1654; d c. 1718). He studied drawing from childhood while training for a military career. He did court service in Germany, Denmark and Italy, as well as pursuing military activities, until c. 1690, but from 1675 he was based in Amsterdam. There he received painting tuition from Gérard de Lairesse. In 1696 he began his artistic career proper in Berlin as court artist to Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (from 1701 Frederick I, King of Prussia). His most highly regarded drawings date from this period: now in the Albertina, Vienna, they depict masks of dying warriors, based on Andreas Schlüter’s sculptures (1695–6; Berlin, Zeughaus). In 1702 Lubieniecki was appointed rector of the Kunstakademie in Berlin, but he returned to Poland via Dresden in 1706. Few of his canvases are known; among them the portrait of Peter Schenk (c. 1700; Budapest, Mus. F.A.) is outstanding. A Family Portrait (c. 1690; Warsaw, N. Mus.) was clearly painted in keeping with the late 17th-century antiquarian style of Dutch portraits.
Part of the Lubieniecki family
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