Tadeusz Gorecki

Tadeusz Gorecki (5 June 1825, Dusinėnai, near Vilnius - 31 January 1868, Vichy) was a Lithuanian-born Polish genre and portrait painter.

Biography

He came from an aristocratic family. His father was the poet and short story writer, Antoni Gorecki. After participating in the November Uprising, his father had to flee to Paris, leaving the family in Vilnius. Their money and possessions were confiscated by the Russian authorities.
"Tadeusz Gorecki,
Los malarza" by Swietłana Kul-Sylwestrowa @ Ziemia Lidzka.

Attracted to art at an early age, he probably received lessons from his cousin, Walenty Wańkowicz. His first formal lessons were with Kanuty Rusiecki. Later, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts with Karl Bryullov. From 1843 to 1847, he was Bryullov's assistant for painting frescoes at Saint Isaac's Cathedral.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet.

In 1850, he applied for and was awarded the title of "Portrait Artist" for his painting of Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg. Later that year, he began an extensive trip, visiting Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Madrid, where he spent some time copying works at the Museo del Prado. In 1854, he was named an "Academician" and, the following year, made an extended visit to Italy.

In November 1857, he went to Paris to marry the writer , daughter of the poet, Adam Mickiewicz. The marriage was opposed by her family, as she had recently refused a marriage proposal by her father's friend, Armand Lévy. An argument of an unknown nature almost led to a duel with her brother, Władysław. Tragedy was averted, but his relationship with her family continued to be troubled. Their situation was made more bearable by the fact that, during these years, he got to know his father for the first time. Gorecki made a series of illustrations for Adam Mickiewicz's poem ''Pan Tadeusz''.AKLOJO ELGETOS PAVEIKSLAS VAIZDUOJAMAJAME MENE
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In 1862, he was awarded the Order of the Lion and the Sun for teaching Western-style art to four Persian students, but had to refuse the award under pressure from the Russian government. Four years later, he paid a last visit to Vilnius. He died after a long illness at the age of forty-three and was buried next to his father at Montparnasse Cemetery. His wife outlived him by fifty-four years. The largest collection of his works is at the Belarusian National Arts Museum.

Selected paintings

File:Tadeusz Górecki - „Przy łożu umierającej”.jpg, At the Bdside of the Dying
File:Gorecki-Blind Beggar.jpg, Blind Beggar with a Boy (1843)
File:Gorecki-Kisses.jpg, Exchanging Easter Kisses (1850)
File:Tadas Goreckis. Šv. evangelistas Lukas. XIX a.jpg, Luke the Evangelist (1868)
File:Tadas Goreckis. Šv. evangelistas Morkus. XIX a.jpg, Mark the Evangelist (1868)
File:Т. Гарэцкі. Святы апостал Павел.jpg, Paul the Apostle (1868)

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1825 births
1868 deaths
19th-century Polish painters
19th-century Polish male artists
Genre painters
Polish portrait painters
Polish emigrants to France
People from Vilnius District Municipality
Polish male painters