Jan Matejko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Matejko

Polish painter

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1838

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1893

Profession: painter, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation: [jan a'l?jz? ma't?jko] (listen); also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events.
His works include large oil on canvas paintings like Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869) or Battle of Grunwald (1878), numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish kings, and murals in St.
Mary's Basilica, Kraków.
He is referred to as the most famous Polish painter or even the "national painter" of Poland.Matejko spent most of his life in Kraków.
His teachers at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts included Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz.
Later, he became a director at this institution, which eventually was renamed the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.
A number of his students became prominent painters themselves, including Maurycy Gottlieb, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanislaw Wyspianski.



Alternative names	Jan Alojzy Matejko; Johann Matejko; Jana Matejki; j. matejko; jan matejko; J. Mateijko; Matejko
Description	Polish-Austro-Hungarian painter and university teacher
Date of birth/death	24 June 1838	1 November 1893
Location of birth/death	Kraków	Kraków
Work location	Vienna; Paris; Munich
Authority control	: Q189117 VIAF: 27863576 ISNI: 0000 0001 0882 6913 ULAN: 500000325 LCCN: n82234077 NLA: 35345706 WorldCat