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Battle

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-I-219
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Battle
Date of creation: 1853
Technique: watercolour
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions: 53.2 x 39.2 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: battle painting
Provenance: Collection of Boleslaw Orzechowicz

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Author in the original: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Country: Austrian Empire
Biography: Artur Grottger was born in 1837 in the village of Otynevychi in the Lviv region (former Ottyniowice, Eastern Galicia). He studied at the Lviv School of Painting of Jan Maszkowski and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). Artur Grottger is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism, as well as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolourist. He is the author of six patriotic art cycles regarding the January Uprising against the Russian occupation of Poland of 1863, portraits, and local history materials. Artur Grottger died after a severe illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

Object description

This is a multi-figure and dynamic composition, which shows the battle of the cavalry in the background of mountain peaks. The plot is based on the battle of the Tatars against the Cossacks (?). One can see eleven figures clearly depicted by the author. At the bottom of the composition there is an image of a stream (?).

Inscriptions

At the bottom left there is an inscription "Year of 1853. Painted by Artur Grottger. Juliusz Kossak. 21.2.96 (?)" written in Polish.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery