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Maksymilian Gierymski
Gierymski (Warsaw 1846 - Reichenhall, Bavaria 1874) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.
As a seventeen-years-old boy, he participated in the January Uprising. He was educated at the Warsaw Drawing School initially, but then received a government scholarship in 1867 and went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He became one of the leading painters of the Munich realistic school. Initially best known for this battle paintings, he also created many landscape paintings, especially of southern Poland, which he visited several times.
Successful western Europe completely, he did not gain approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1968 on. He did however win awards at exhibitions in Munich (1869) and in Berlin (1872).
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Painting ID:: 85133
Insurgent's patrol - picket.
Date 1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60 x 108 cm (23.6 x 42.5 in)
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Painting ID:: 85836
Apple-tree over stream.
Date 1868(1868)
Medium Oil on canvas mounted on board
Dimensions 35 x 45 cm (13.8 x 17.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 88777
Charge of Russian horse artillery
1867(1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 x 60 cm (15.7 x 23.6 in)
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Painting ID:: 88778
Insurgent
1869(1869)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 24 x 31 cm (9.4 x 12.2 in)
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Painting ID:: 90019
Apple-tree over stream
1868(1868)
Medium oil on canvas mounted on board
Dimensions 35 x 45 cm (13.8 x 17.7 in)
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Maksymilian Gierymski
Gierymski (Warsaw 1846 - Reichenhall, Bavaria 1874) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.
As a seventeen-years-old boy, he participated in the January Uprising. He was educated at the Warsaw Drawing School initially, but then received a government scholarship in 1867 and went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He became one of the leading painters of the Munich realistic school. Initially best known for this battle paintings, he also created many landscape paintings, especially of southern Poland, which he visited several times.
Successful western Europe completely, he did not gain approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1968 on. He did however win awards at exhibitions in Munich (1869) and in Berlin (1872).
. Related Artists to Maksymilian Gierymski: | Joos van cleve | Johann Gottfried Steffan | RICCI, Marco | Merle, Hugues | Louis Le Nain |
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