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Maksymilian Gierymski
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Insurgent's patrol - picket.
Painting ID:: 85133
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Maksymilian Gierymski
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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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Insurgent's patrol - picket. |
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Date 1872(1872)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60 x 108 cm (23.6 x 42.5 in)
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Related Paintings::.
| Le Faux Pas(The Mistaken Advance) (mk05) | Zwei Akte auf blauem Sofa | Der Quacksalber | |
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