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1846 Warsaw, Poland - 1874 Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany. Known for: Equestrian genre, military, landscape and marine painting.
A Polish-born painter, known primarily for watercolors but who also did many oil paintings, Gierymski Maksymilian was born in Warsaw Poland and was the older brother of well-known Polish painter,... Read full biography
A Polish-born painter, known primarily for watercolors but who also did many oil paintings, Gierymski Maksymilian was born in Warsaw Poland and was the older brother of well-known Polish painter, Aleksander Gierymski. In his painting, he was much influenced by the French Barbizon School. He spent... Read full biography
A Polish-born painter, known primarily for watercolors but who also did many oil paintings, Gierymski Maksymilian was born in Warsaw Poland and was the older brother of well-known Polish painter, Aleksander Gierymski. In his painting, he was much influenced by the French Barbizon School. He spent most of his career in Germany, and died at age 28 in Bavaria. In 1865, Gierymski studied in Warsaw for several months under Rafal Hadziewicz (1803-86) and Chrystian Breslauer (1805-82), and he was also... Read full biography
A Polish-born painter, known primarily for watercolors but who also did many oil paintings, Gierymski Maksymilian was born in Warsaw Poland and was the older brother of well-known Polish painter, Aleksander Gierymski. In his painting, he was much influenced by the French Barbizon School. He spent most of his career in Germany, and died at age 28 in Bavaria. In 1865, Gierymski studied in Warsaw for several months under Rafal Hadziewicz (1803-86) and Chrystian Breslauer (1805-82), and he was also influenced by the work of Juliusz Kossak, with whom he was acquainted. His earliest landscape oils date from this period and include forest landscapes as well as military scenes such as Artillery on the Gallop (1867). He won a state scholarship and... Read full biography
A Polish-born painter, known primarily for watercolors but who also did many oil paintings, Gierymski Maksymilian was born in Warsaw Poland and was the older brother of well-known Polish painter, Aleksander Gierymski. In his painting, he was much influenced by the French Barbizon School. He spent most of his career in Germany, and died at age 28 in Bavaria. In 1865, Gierymski studied in Warsaw for several months under Rafal Hadziewicz (1803-86) and Chrystian Breslauer (1805-82), and he was also influenced by the work of Juliusz Kossak, with whom he was acquainted. His earliest landscape oils date from this period and include forest landscapes as well as military scenes such as Artillery on the Gallop (1867). He won a state scholarship and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden in Munich from July 1867 until October 1868, and at the same time h... Read full biography
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A Polish-born painter, known primarily for watercolors but who also did many oil paintings, Gierymski Maksymilian was born in Warsaw Poland and was the older brother of well-known Polish painter, Aleksander Gierymski. In his painting, he was much influenced by the French Barbizon School. He spent most of his career in Germany, and died at age 28 in Bavaria.
In 1865, Gierymski studied in Warsaw for several months under Rafal Hadziewicz (1803-86) and Chrystian Breslauer (1805-82), and he was also influenced by the work of Juliusz Kossak, with whom he was acquainted.
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