at times when women were not allowed to study at universities and Maria Curie Sklodowska had to move to France to continue her discoveries, he founded an artistic conservatory for women..!!! For us he remains Maestro of women portraits and documenteries of a country life. Teodor Axentowicz Axentowicz was born May 13, 1859 in Braşov, Hungary (now Romania), to a family of Polish-Armenian ancestry.- Armenian: Թեոդոր Աքսենտովիչ In 1893 in Chelsea, London, he married Iza Henrietta Gielgud, aunt of Val Gielgud and John Gielgud of the theatrical dynasty. His son, Philip S.A.D. Axentowicz was born in Chelsea in 1893.He studied in Munich, Paris, London and Rome, In 1904 at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, Axentowicz received a Special Commemorative Award in recognition of distinguished service in connection with various national sections of the Department of Art. While in Paris, he received the prestigious title of Officier dAcadémie Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Member of Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1909, he was knighted by Franz Joseph I of Austria to Order of the Iron Crown (Austria). In 1923, he was awarded the Commanders Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In 1929, he was awarded Medal of the Decade by the Second Polish Republic. In 1929, he was awarded the Grand Gold Metal at the Universal Exhibition in Poznan. In 1936, he was awarded Order of Polonia Restituta.
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