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Maksymilian Gierymski
Gierymski (Warsaw 1846 - Reichenhall, Bavaria 1874) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.
As a seventeen-years-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.
Successful western Europe completely, he did not gain approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1968 on. He did however win awards at exhibitions in Munich (1869) and in Berlin (1872).
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Painting ID:: 72113
Jewish prayers on shabbat day
Jewish prayers on shabbat day
Oil on canvas, 71x114, Oblastni Galerie, Liberec
1871(1871)
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Painting ID:: 73674
Zydo w dziensabatu
Oil on canvas, 71x114, Oblastni Galerie, Liberec
Date 1871
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Painting ID:: 75870
Woman in evening dress
oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm
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Painting ID:: 84983
Charge of Russian horse artillery.
Date 1867(1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 x 60 cm (15.7 x 23.6 in)
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Painting ID:: 84987
Insurgent of 1863.
Date 1869(1869)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 24 x 31 cm (9.4 x 12.2 in)
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Maksymilian Gierymski
Gierymski (Warsaw 1846 - Reichenhall, Bavaria 1874) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.
As a seventeen-years-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.
Successful western Europe completely, he did not gain approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1968 on. He did however win awards at exhibitions in Munich (1869) and in Berlin (1872).
. Related Artists to Maksymilian Gierymski: | Nicolaus Knupfer | Julius Exner | HOLBEIN, Ambrosius | Paolo Veronese | Krimmel John |
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