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Portrait of Florian Ziemialkowski

Jan Matejko

Basic information

ID: Г-I-135
Author: Jan Matejko
Name: Portrait of Florian Ziemialkowski
Date of creation: 1872
Country: Poland Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions: 24 x 17.5 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Jan Matejko
Author in the original: Jan Alojzy Matejko
Artist's lifetime: 1838–1893
Country: Poland
Biography: Jan Alojzy Matejko (born 24 June 1838 in Krakow – died 1 November 1893 in Krakow) – a famous Polish painter, graphic artist, and teacher. In 1852, he began studying painting at the Krakow School of Fine Arts (now the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts). He studied at Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz. The artist graduated from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in 1858 and after that, he studied for two more years in Munich with Hermann Anschütz, where the young artist experienced a period of fascination with the historical painting of French painter Paul Delaroche. The artist participated in numerous art exhibitions. He travelled frequently to Paris and Vienna and visited Prague, Budapest, Berlin, London, Istanbul and many locations in Italy. He became the head of Krakow School of Fine Arts in 1873 and remained at its head until his death. His students included such outstanding Polish painters as Jacek Malczewski, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Jozef Mehoffer. Jan Matejko's artistic heritage includes more than three hundred paintings: portraits and paintings on historical, religious and allegorical themes, as well as several hundreds of graphic drawings and sketches. Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery holds some of the best works of this outstanding Polish artist.

Inscriptions

Inscriptions, monogram and date bottom right: JM 1872, top right: For Mrs Florian/ Ziemiałkowska/ For the Wife of a Decent Man/ Jan Matejko/ Kraków A.D.26/ 10 873.

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