Zamch
Zamch is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Obsza, within Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Obsza, south-east of Biłgoraj, and south of the regional capital Lublin
Lubl ...
– 7 September 1883,
Kielce
Kielce (, yi, קעלץ, Keltz) is a city in southern Poland, and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the bank ...
) was a Polish painter; primarily of portraits and religious works, and an expert on ancient culture.
Biography
From 1816 to 1822, he attended the Royal Lyceum (formerly the Zamojski Academy) in
Szczebrzeszyn
Szczebrzeszyn (; yi, שעברעשין, Shebreshin; uk, Щебрешин, Shchebreshyn) is a city in southeastern Poland in Lublin Voivodeship, in Zamość County, about 20km west of Zamość. From 1975–1999, it was part of the Zamość Voivo ...
. He then enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Warsaw, where he studied with
Antoni Brodowski
Antoni Stanisław Brodowski (26 December 1784, Warsaw – 31 March 1832, Warsaw) was a Polish painter in the Classical style.
Biography
According to the wishes expressed in his father's will, he began by studying mathematics.Antoni Blank. After receiving a scholarship from the "Ministry of Public Education and Religious Affairs" in 1829, he spent a short time in Dresden, then went to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under
Antoine-Jean Gros
Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was given title of Baron Gros in 1824.
Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French R ...
. In 1833, he found a position in the studios of
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish and Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in ...
in Rome. While there, he visited all the museums, making copies of the
, especially Raphael.
In 1834, he moved to Kraków, where he painted religious murals. He was married there the following year. Later, he created murals at churches in Medyka and Starzawa. He stayed in Kraków until 1839.
In 1839, he moved to Moscow and served as a Professor of Drawing for the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Moscow; a position he held until 1844. He then went to Warsaw where he became a Professor at the School of Fine Arts in 1846. He held that position until 1864 and taught a generation of young Polish artists; including
Władysław Czachórski
Władysław Czachórski (22 September 1850 – 13 January 1911) was a Polish painter in the Academic style.
Biography
Czachorski was born in Lublin. In 1866 he attended the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and had Rafał Hadziewicz as a teacher. H ...
Franciszek Kostrzewski
Franciszek Kostrzewski (19 April 1826, Warsaw – 30 September 1911, Warsaw) was a Polish illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, comics artist Pantaleon Szyndler and
Alfred Kowalski
Alfred Jan Maksymilian Kowalski (Alfred ''Wierusz''-Kowalski; 11 October 184916 February 1915) was a Polish painter and representative of the Munich School.
Life
He was born on 11 October 1849 in Suwałki to father Teofil Kowalski of the Wieruszo ...
. He remained in Warsaw until 1871, then retired to Kielce.
He was one of the co-founders of the ''Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych'', an art appreciation society that later established the museum known as the Zachęta. His religious paintings may be found at churches in Szczebrzeszyn, Lisów and Łęczyca.