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Teodor Axentowicz
Teodor Axentowicz (; 13 May 185926 August 1938) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. He was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians. Life Axentowicz was born on 13 May 1859 in Brassó, Hungary (now Brașov, Romania), to a family of Polish-Armenian ancestry. In 1893 in Chelsea, London, he married Iza Henrietta Gielgud, aunt of Val Gielgud and John Gielgud of the theatrical dynasty. A son, Philip S.A.D. Axentowicz, was born in Chelsea in 1893. Between 1879 and 1882 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From there he moved to Paris, where he was a student of Carolus-Duran and continued his education until 1895. During that time he started a long cooperation with various journals and started his career as a copyist, duplicating the works of Titian and Botticelli for . He also made numerous travels to London and Rome, where he pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brașov
Brașov (, , ; , also ''Brasau''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County. According to the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, with 237,589 inhabitants, Brașov is the Cities in Romania, 6th most populous city in Romania. The Brașov metropolitan area, metropolitan area was home to 371,802 residents. Brașov is located in the central part of the country, about north of Bucharest and from the Black Sea. It is surrounded by the Southern Carpathians and is part of the historical region of Transylvania. Historically, the city was the centre of the Burzenland (), once dominated by the Transylvanian Saxons (), and a significant commercial hub on the trade roads between Austria (then Archduchy of Austria, within the Habsburg monarchy, and subsequently Austrian Empire) and Turkey (then Ottoman Empire). It is also where the Deșteaptă-te, române!, nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli ( ; ) or simply known as Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period. In addition to the mythological subjects for which he is best known today, Botticelli painted a wide range of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the ''Madonna and Child'', many in the round tondo shape) and also some portraits. His best-known works are '' The Birth of Venus'' and '' Primavera'', both in the Uffizi in Florence, which holds many of Botticelli's works.. Botticelli lived all his life in the same ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Włodzimierz Tetmajer
Włodzimierz Tetmajer (December 31, 1861 in Harklowa – December 26, 1923 in Kraków) was a Polish painter with works in collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and Kraków. Biography Włodzimierz Tetmajer was born in Harklowa near Krakow in the town of Nowy Targ and died in Bronowice, now a district of Kraków. Tetmajer studied painting at the Kraków School of Fine Arts (''Szkoła Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie'') from 1875 to 1886, then in Vienna and Munich (1886–1889), in Paris at the Académie Colarossi, and with Jan Matejko from 1889 to 1893. In 1890 he married Anna Mikołajczykówna, a peasant's daughter from Bronowice in the spirit of the Young Poland's return to the roots. Tetmajer settled with his wife in a remote house covered with thatch, where he was often visited by various friends. In 1900 he hosted a wedding of one of his friends, the poet Lucjan Rydel, to his wife's sister, Jadwiga Mikołajczykówna. This village wedding became the inspiration for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Stanisławski (painter)
Jan Grzegorz Stanisławski (24 June 1860 – 6 January 1907) was a Young Poland, Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.Culture.plJan Stanisławski at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute portal ''Culture.pl''. Biography Stanisławski was born on 24 June 1860, in Vilshana, Cherkasy Oblast, Vilshana, Russian Empire. He initially studied mathematics at Warsaw University (1879–82), and subsequently at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Imperial Technical Institute in St Petersburg. He began to learn painting at the art studio in Warsaw which later gave rise to the School of Fine Arts, under Wojciech Gerson. In 1883 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, School of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 1885, he continued his studies in Paris under Carolus-Duran, Charles Emile Auguste Durand. While based in Paris, he trav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Mehoffer
Józef Mehoffer (19 March 1869 – 8 July 1946) was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. Life Mehoffer was born in Ropczyce, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as well as in Paris at the Académie Colarossi among others. There Mehoffer began painting portraits, often of people of historical significance. He later expanded his work to include different techniques, such as graphic art, stained glass, textiles, chalk drawings, etchings and book illustrations. He produced set designs for theatre, and stylized furniture designs. Mehoffer received international acclaim for his stained glass windows in the Gothic St Nicholas Collegiate Church in Fribourg, Switzerland produced in 1895–1936. His other stained glass designs include the Radziwill Chapel in Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who was one of the central figures of the patriotic Young Poland movement. His works combined the predominant style of his time with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic aspiration for national independence, Christian and Greek mythology, folk tales, and his love of the natural world. He was the father of painter Rafał Malczewski. Childhood Malczewski was born in Radom, Congress Poland, under occupation of the Russian Empire. During his childhood and early youth he was greatly influenced by his father Julian, a Polish patriot and social activist who introduced him to the world of romantic literature inspired by the November Uprising. On his mother's side, he was related to the Szymanowski family whom they often visited on their Masovian country estate in Cygów. The attractiveness of the Polish landscape and associated folklore had been awakened in him by Feliks Karczew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Fałat
Julian Fałat ( Tuligłowy, near Lwów, 30 July 1853 – 9 July 1929, Bystra Śląska) was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist. Life Fałat studied at the Kraków School of Fine Arts under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, then at the Art Academy of Munich. In the course of his 1885 travels about Europe and Asia, Fałat compiled studies which were conducive to the development of his art. Themes typical of his painting are Polish landscapes, hunting scenes, portraits, and travel observations. He accepted an invitation from future German Emperor Wilhelm II to serve as court painter in Berlin and worked there 1886-1895. In 1895 he became director of the Kraków School of Fine Arts. In 1900 he reorganized it as the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. Fałat died in Bystra Śląska on 9 July 1929. A Polish museum, the Fałatówka, is devoted to him. Works looted under Germany's World War II occu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Chełmoński
Józef Marian Chełmoński (7 November 1849 – 6 April 1914) was a Polish painter of the Realism (art movement), realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romanticism in Poland, Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is famous for monumental paintings now at the Sukiennice Museum, Sukiennice National Art Gallery in Kraków and at National Museum, Warsaw, the MNW in Warsaw.Profile of Józef Chełmoński at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute ''Culture.pl'' website. Life Chełmoński was born in the village of Boczki, Łowicz County, Boczki near Łowicz in central Congress Poland under the Russian Partition, Russian military control. His first drawing teacher was his father Józef Adam (a small leaseholder and administrator of Boczki village). His mother was Izabela n ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panoramic Painting
Panoramic paintings are massive artworks that reveal a wide, Panorama, all-encompassing view of a particular subject, often a landscape, military battle, or historical event. They became especially popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United States, inciting opposition from some writers of Romantic poetry. A few have survived into the 21st century and are on public display. Typically shown in rotundas for viewing, panoramas were meant to be so lifelike they confused the spectator between what was real and what was image. In China, panoramic paintings are an important subset of handscroll paintings, with some famous examples being ''Along the River During the Qingming Festival'' and ''Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River''. History The word "panorama", a portmanteau of the Greek words ‘''pano''’ (all) and ‘''horama''’ (view), was coined by the Irish people, Irish painter Robert Barker (painter), Robert Barker in 1787. While walking on Calton Hill overlooki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racławice Panorama
The ''Racławice Panorama'' (Polish: ''Panorama Racławicka'') is a monumental (15 × 114 meter) cycloramic painting depicting the Battle of Racławice, during the Kościuszko Uprising. It is located in Wrocław, Poland. The painting is one of only a few preserved relics of a genre of 19th-century mass culture, and the oldest in Poland. The panorama stands in a circular fashion and, with the viewer in the center, presents different scenes at various viewing angles. A special kind of perspective used in the painting and additional effects (lighting, artificial terrain) create a feeling of reality. History The idea came from the painter Jan Styka in Lviv (then Lwów) who invited battle-painter Wojciech Kossak to participate in the project. They were assisted by Ludwik Boller, Tadeusz Popiel, Zygmunt Rozwadowski, Teodor Axentowicz, Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Wincenty Wodzinowski and Michał Sozański. The project was conceived as a patriotic commemoration of the 100th annivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Styka
Jan Styka (April 8, 1858 – April 11, 1925) was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas. He was also illustrator and poet. Known also as a great patriotic speaker - his speeches were printed in 1915 under the French title ''L'ame de la Pologne'' (The Soul of Poland). Biography The son of a Czech officer in Austria-Hungary, Styka attended school in his native Lemberg (Polish: Lwów, now Lviv) then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria following which he took up residence in Kraków in 1882 where he studied historical painting under Jan Matejko. Next he returned to Lviv and opened there a workshop. Here, together with celebrated Polish historical painter Wojciech Kossak, they created his most famous work in Poland – '' The Racławice Panorama'', a 15x114 meter cycloramic painting now on display as part of the National Museum in Wrocław. Later he travelled to Italy for a short time before moving to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Kossak
Wojciech Horacy Kossak (31 December 1856 – 29 July 1942) was a Polish Painting, painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz Kossak, and the father of two highly talented literary daughters, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec and of a painter son, Jerzy Kossak. Life Wojciech Horacy Kossak was born in Paris on New Year's Eve of 1856 just before midnight, while his twin brother, Tadeusz Kossak, just after, on 1 January 1857. The family eventually left France. His middle name was in honour of his godfather, French painter Horace Vernet. Kossak began his education upon his family's return to Poland. He attended the Three Crosses Square Gymnasium in Warsaw and later the Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School, Gimnazjum św. Anny in Kraków. He simultaneously studied painting with his father Juliusz Kossak, Juliusz. Between 1871 and 1873, Wojciech s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
