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Portrait Of Countess Potocka
''Portrait of Countess Potocka'' is an oil on canvas portrait of Katarzyna Potocka née Branicka by German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, created in 1854. He was at the time one of the foremost portraitists of Europe's royalty and aristocracy. It is held in the National Museum, in Warsaw. History and description Winterhalter was a painter who received many commissions from the various European courts and therefore also from the aristocracy of his time. The pictured, Countess Potocka (1825–1907), belonged to the wealthy nobility of Poland and was a member of the Branicki family. She was born Katarzyna Branicka and in 1847 married Adam Józef Potocki (1822–1872), a member of the Potocki family. The couple had seven children, three of whom were also painted by Winterhalter, including Andrzej Kazimierz, Artur Władysław, Zofia Potocka, and Róża. The Countess Potocka is depicted here in an oriental costume in a three-quarter size, in the painter's favorite format, an ova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithography, lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portrait painting, portraiture. Among his best known works are ''Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting'' (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, Elisabeth of Austria (1865). Early years Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany's Black Forest in the Electorate of Baden, on 20 April 1805.Ormond & Blackett-Ord, ''Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe'', p. 18. He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773–1863), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer (1765–1838), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family. His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki
Graf Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki (10 June 1861 – 12 April 1908) was an Austro-Hungarian Polish aristocrat and politician who was Statthalter of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria from 1903 until his assassination by Ukrainian nationalist in 1908. A hardliner against Ukrainian nationalism, Potocki oversaw violence against Ukrainians during the 1908 local election to the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria, which prompted his assassination. Early life and career Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki was born on 10 June 1861 in the city of Krzeszowice, the younger son of Count Adam Potocki, a member of the Potocki family and a politician in the Eastern European region of Galicia, at the time under the control of the Austrian Empire, and his wife, Countess Katarzyna Branicka. He was educated at the Saint Anne Gymnasium in Kraków from 1877, passing the matura exam with honours in 1879. He next travelled to the University of Graz, where he studied several subjects, including Roman law, geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paintings By Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual arts, visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1854 Paintings
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Warsaw National Museum
The National Museum in Warsaw (, MNW) is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art (Art of ancient Egypt, Egyptian, Art in ancient Greece, Greek, Roman art, Roman), counting about 11,000 pieces, an extensive gallery of Culture of Poland#Art, Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting (Art of Italy, Italian, French art, French, Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish, Dutch School (painting), Dutch, German art, German and Russian culture, Russian) including some paintings from Adolf Hitler's private collection, ceded to the museum by the Allied-occupied Germany, American authorities in post-war Germany. The museum is also home to Numismatics, numismatic collections, a gallery of applied arts and a department of oriental art, with the largest collection of Chinese art in Poland, comprising some 5,000 objects. The museum boasts the Faras Gallery at the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzeszowice
Krzeszowice () is a town in southern Poland, situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. As of 2004, its population was 9,993. Krzeszowice belongs to ''Kraków Metropolitan Area'', and lies 25 kilometers west of the center of the city of Kraków. The town has a rail station, on a major route from Kraków to Katowice, and lies along National Road Nr. 79, which goes from Warsaw to Bytom. In 1928–1966 the town had the status of a spa. Krzeszowice has a sports club called ''Świt'', founded in 1923. Krzeszowice is located in southern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, with numerous caves and valleys in the area. In 1981, when the ''Complex of Jura Landscape Parks'' was created, three parks from the gmina of Krzeszowice were added to it (''Rudnia Landscape Park, Tenczynek Landscape Park'' and ''Kraków Valleys Landscape Park''). In 2008, it was selected with 19 villages of Europe - Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain - for the Spanish documentary film "Villages of Europe" Pueblo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Róża Potocka
Countess Róża Potocka (1849–1937) was a Polish noblewoman, landowner and by birth member of the illustrious House of Potocki. Early life She was born in Kraków as the eldest child and the eldest daughter of Count Adam Józef Potocki and his wife, Countess Katarzyna Branicka. Biography She was married twice, first to Count Władysław Krasiński (1844–1873) since 20 June 1868 (Krzeszowice) and then to Count Edward Aleksander Raczyński (1847–1926), since 2 October 1886 (Zakopane). She had three children with Krasiński: * Count Adam Krasiński (1870-1909), married to Countess Wanda Maria Emilia Badeni (1874-1950) * Countess Elżbieta Maria Krasińska (1871-1906), married to Count Jan Tyszkiewicz (1861-1903) * Countess Zofia Krasińska (1873-1891), unmarried She also had two children with Raczyński: * Count Roger Adam Raczyński (1889-1945), married to Helena Rohozińska (1892-1966) * Count Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891-1993), married firstly to Joy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Władysław Potocki
Count Artur Władysław Józef Maria Potocki (1850–1890) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and an Imperial Chamberlain. Early life Born into a rich and powerful House of Potocki, as the second child and elder son of Count Adam Józef Potocki (1822–1872) and his wife, Countess Katarzyna Branicka. Biography Artur was owner of Krzeszowice, Staszowskie, Mędrzechów and Biała Cerkiew estates. He was an economic activist, member of the Herrenhaus, Austrian Chamberlain, chairman of an Insure and an Agriculture society, founder of the Cooperative Bank in Krzeszowice and chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Mutual Insurance Society. For some time, Artur kept a romantic relationship with the widowed Crown Crincess Stéphanie of Austria, which was ended by his early death caused by laryngeal cancer. Personal life On 7 July 1877 he married Princess Roza Zofia Lubomirska (1860-1881), eldest daughter of Prince Eugene Adolph Lubomirski (1825–1911) and his wife, Countes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potocki Family
The House of Potocki (; plural: Potoccy, male: Potocki, feminine: Potocka) was a prominent szlachta, Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland and magnates of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Potocki family is one of the wealthiest and most powerful aristocratic families in Poland. History The Potocki family originated from the small village of Potok Wielki, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Potok Wielki; their family name derives from that place name. The family contributed to the cultural development and history of Poland's Eastern Borderlands (today Western Ukraine). The family is renowned for numerous Polish statesmen, military leaders, and cultural activists. The first known Potocki was Żyrosław z Potoka (born about 1136). The children of his son Aleksander (~1167) castelan of Sandomierz, were progenitors of new noble families such as the Moskorzewski, Stanisławski, Tworowski, Borowski, and Stosłowski. Jakub Potocki (c. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on copper, copper for several centuries. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhism, Buddhist artists in Afghanistan, and date back to the 7th century AD. Oil paint was later developed by Europeans for painting statues and woodwork from at least the 12th century, but its common use for painted images began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most of Europe, though not for Orthodox icons or wall paintings, where tempera a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Józef Potocki
Count Adam Józef Potocki (24 February 1822, Łańcut – 15 June 1872, Krzeszowice) was a Polish politician from Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia, who was a prominent advocate for the autonomy of that region. He owned numerous estates, steel mills in Silesia, and shares in the consortium building Galicia's railway lines. Biography He was the son of an army officer, Artur Potocki, Count Artur Potocki, and his wife, Zofia Branicka, Zofia née Countess Branicki (Korczak), Branicka, a well-known art collector. He initially studied at the University of Vienna then, from 1839 to 1840, at the University of Edinburgh and, in 1841, completed his studies at the University of Berlin. Following the Kraków uprising of 1846, he supported the resolution that would have maintained it as a Free City of Cracow, Free City, but it was annexed by Austria. In 1847 he married Countess Katarzyna Branicka, a distant relative of his mother, in Dresden. They had four children: Róża Potocka (1849–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
