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View of the Castle in Nuremberg / Street View in Nuremberg

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/15а,б
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: View of the Castle in Nuremberg / Street View in Nuremberg
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 19.1 x 14.5 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: architecture painting
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Author in the original: Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański
Artist's lifetime: 1869–1907
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in 1869 in Krakow. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a member of the Young Poland movement, and art editor of the weekly Życie (Life). Stanislaw Wyspianski is known as a playwright and poet, modernist painter, and designer. The artist died in November 1907. He was buried in Krakow.

Object description

a) The picture represents a stone architectural complex development. In the center there is a semi-circular arch, on both sides of which there are stone staircases at some distance. On the left side of the work there is a circular shaped tower with a spire roof. b) In the foreground, one can see a part of a city street with high buildings on both sides; in the background there are low buildings.

Inscriptions

a) In the lower part of the work there is a creation place and date written in Polish. In the lower right corner there is the author monogram. b) In the lower part of the work there is a creation place and date written in Polish.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

View of the Castle in Nuremberg / Street View in Nuremberg

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