3-068-952 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait of Adolf Poller, c1858. Entrepreneur and city councillor, son of Kacper Poller, the founder of the Pod Zlotej Kotwica inn (today's Poller Hotel) at Szpitalna Street in Kraków. Adolf took over the business from his father and developed it, enlarging the hotel with neighboring tenement houses. He was a philanthropist and social activist, an activist of the Charity Society, the Brotherhood of Mercy and the Pious Bank. He belonged to the Fowler Brotherhood and in the years 1869-1870 he held the position of the Fowler King. He also belonged to the Kraków Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Adolf Poller is a young man in his twenties, depicted in a bust, slightly turned to the right. He is dressed in a black jacket and a white shirt with a standing collar tied with a tie tied in a bow tie. A face with regular, sharp features, clean-shaven, with a short-cropped, dark moustache. Waclawa Milewska