Artist
Maksymilian Gierymski
Polish, 1846–1874
Maksymilian Gierymski was a Polish French Realism artist. 20 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Kraków. Maksymilian Gierymski was born in Warsaw.
Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski (1846 in Warsaw – 1874 in Reichenhall, Bavaria) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski. As a seventeen-year-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.
Completely successful in western Europe, he did not gain approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1868 on.
Works by Maksymilian Gierymski
Springtime in a small town, sketch
Landscape with a birch grove
View of marshes at sunset
In front of the graveyard, sketch
Horsemen passing though a birch grove
Departure for hunting, sketch
Departure for hunting
Head of a woman
Winter in a small town, sketch I
Still Life
Study of the Horse's Head
Winter in a small town
Sketch of a horseman, hussar
An Apple Tree at a Stream
Road Among Trees
Study of a Horse
Gypsy Camp II
Costume Scene
Study of a Chestnut Horse
Apple-tree over stream.
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