Artist

Adam Gorczyński

Portrait of Adam Gorczyński
Portrait of Adam Gorczyński

Duchy of Warsaw, 1805–1876

Adam Gorczyński was a Duchy of Warsaw artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Kraków. Adam Gorczyński was born in Tarnów.

Adam Gorczyński (1805 – 24 May 1876) was a Polish writer and poet of the Romantic era, author of popular novels in the style of gawęda szlachecka and Old Polish silvae rerum, a painter of the Polish Romantic era, an artist of Polish landscapes, co-founder of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, politically engaged in Polish affairs in Galicia, a social activist, and owner of estates in Brzeźnica and Marcyporęba. He used the literary pseudonym "Jadam of Zator". In the 21st century, he became the patron of cultural initiatives in his hometown of Brzeźnica.

Works by Adam Gorczyński

Collections represented

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