Tadeusz Sas Zukotynski (April 3, 1855 - Dec. 7, 1912)
artist and painterOBITUARY
Tadeusz Sas Zukotynski, artist and painter, who was known to Chicago Polonia mainly for his artistic work at the Church of St. Stanislaw K[ostka], died on Saturday [Dec. 7, 1912] at 7 in the morning at the Polish hospital. Dr. Pietrowicz who was his attending physician in these last weeks stated that death was due to heart disease and an accumulation of fluids.
The dear departed Tadeusz Zukotynski was born on April 3, 1855 in Kamieniec Podolski. He studied at the Technical Institute in Riga. For his art studies he went to Munich at age 22, and stayed there for nine years. Immediately after completing his studies he was employed in painting the Milwaukee panoramas which were quite famous in their time. It was there in 1887 he married Augusta Lutz, presently his widow.
As a result of the high artistic quality of his work he was engaged to do paintings in various churches.
Already mentioned was the Church of St. Stanislaw K[ostka] in Chicago. Here are other churches and chapels that he decorated with paintings: St. Alfonse in Chicago, Most Holy Virgin Mary in South Bend, St. Francis in La Grosse, Holy Cross on the corner of 65th and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, as well as the chapel at the Alexian Brothers Hospital in Chicago and the chapel of the Sisters of the Notre Dame in Milwaukee.
The dear departed Zukotynski suffered for a year before his death. In the first part of that year his attending physician was Dr. Soper Jr. at the German hospital. Later he was transferred to the Polish hospital of the Most Holy Virgin Mary on Leavitt Street. The deceased has left a grieving widow and two brothers, Michal and Stanislaw.
His funeral will take place from the funeral home at 651 Barry Avenue, to the Church of St. Stanislaw K[ostka] on Noble and Ingraham Streets. The funeral ceremonies will begin at 9.
Source: Dziennik Chicagoski, December 10, 1912; page 8.
Translation: Peter Obst for the Poles in America Foundation, May 3, 2012
Zukotynski, Thaddeus
Painter. Born 1860 in Polandl; a pupil of Jan Matejko. His beautiful murals and pictures adorn many Polish churches in Chicago and its vicinity. Came to Chicago in 1888 and settled there; painted frescos in St. Stanislaus church, the altar pieces in St. John Kanty, and St. Hyacinth, the sacred pictures in St. Hedwig's, the stations in Holy Cross church, St. Hedwig in South Bend, Ind., the Adoration in the Chapel of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Milwaukee, Wis. A pupil of Pilatti, and a student of Matejko, a Polish count; he was one of Europe's foremost painters in religious subjects. Died in 1910.
[Ed. - see above for correct dates]From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943