Maksymilian Gierymski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish artist
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Maksymilian Gierymski
- Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski (1846 in Warsaw – 1874 in Reichenhall, Bavaria) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours.
- He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski. As a seventeen-year-old boy, he participated in the January Uprising.
- He was educated at the Warsaw Drawing School initially, but then received a government scholarship in 1867 and went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
- He became one of the leading painters of the Munich realistic school.
- Initially best known for this battle paintings, he also created many landscape paintings, especially of southern Poland, which he visited several times. Completely successful in western Europe, he did not gain approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1868 on.
- He did however win awards at exhibitions in Munich (1869) and in Berlin (1872).
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Stanislaw Witkiewicz
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| Alternative names | Stanislaus Witkiewicz; Stanislaw Witkacy; Stanislaw Witkace | ||
| Description | Polish-Russian painter, architect and writer | ||
| Date of birth/death | 8 May 1851 | 5 September 1915 | |
| Location of birth/death | Poszawsze | Lovran | |
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