Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...
- 31 March 1848,
Paris
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) was a Polish painter; primarily known for scenes with horses.
Life and work
He was born into a gentrified family with an artistic tradition. His father was the
Classical
Classical may refer to:
European antiquity
*Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea
*Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and ...
painter,
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.Józef Brodowski, a prominent painter of battle scenes.
His first painting lessons came from his father. After that, he studied in the workshops of Aleksander Kokular and
Antoni Blank
Jan Antoni Blank (6 May 1785, in Olsztyn – 20 February 1844, in Warsaw) was a Polish painter in the Classicism, Classical style who specialized in portraits and miniatures; many of which are in a style similar to Biedermeier. He often signed hi ...
. In 1841, he went to Rome. Two years later, after mounting an exhibition in Warsaw, he moved to Paris, where he perfected his techniques with the battle painter,
Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 178917 January 1863), more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects.
Biography
Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who w ...
. His works also show the influence of
Aleksander Orłowski
Aleksander Orłowski (9 March 1777 – 13 March 1832) was a Polish painter and sketch artist, and a pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.
Life
Orłowski was born in 1777 in Warsaw into an impoverished noble family, his father was a ta ...
.
He died, aged only twenty-six, of unspecified causes; although his death came shortly after the beginning of the
French Revolution of 1848
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.
Most of his known paintings involve horses; primarily in battle scenes and historical events. He also did
caricature
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s and a few
Orientalist
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*A scholar of Oriental studies
*A person or thing relating to the Western intellectual or artistic paradigm known as Orientalism
*''The Orientalist'', a biography of author Lev Nussimbaum by Tom Reiss
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works.
Source
* Feliks Kopera: "Brodowski Tadeusz". In: ''Polski Słownik Biograficzny''. Vol. 2: Beyzym Jan – Brownsford Marja. Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności – Skład Główny w Księgarniach Gebethnera i Wolffa, 1936, pg. 449. Reprint: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Kraków 1989,