Taddeo Kuntze Or Taddeo Polacco

Place: Zielona Góra

Born: 1727

Death: 1793

Biography:

Tadeusz Kuntze, also known as Taddeo Kuntze or Taddeo Polacco, was a Polish-Silesian painter born in Zielona Góra, Poland in 1727. He died in Rome, Italy in 1793. Kuntze studied at the Académie de France in Rome from 1748 to 1752 and later under Ludovico Mazzanti and at the scuola libera del nudo. He painted a number of works in Poland in 1754, including altarpieces of St Adalbert and of St Casimir in Kraków Cathedral, and the Fortune now in the National Museum, Warsaw. In 1756 he travelled to Paris, and in 1757 was again in Kraków at the court of Załuski. After Załuski's death in late 1758, Kuntze went to Spain. By 1766 he was again in Rome. Among his patrons there were the Borghese princes, for whom he worked at both Palazzo Borghese and Villa Borghese, and Henry Benedict Stuart, then bishop of Frascati, for whom he executed frescoes in the Seminario Tuscolano and in the Palazzo Vescovile (the bishop's palace). He also worked on frescoes in the church of Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi.