Artist
Michał Kulesza
Polish, 1799–1863
Michał Kulesza was a Polish Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Kraków. Michał Kulesza was born in Vilnius.
Michał Kulesza (Lithuanian: Mykolas Kuleša; 26 November 1799 – 6 November 1863) was a Romantic painter. He was among the first lithographers in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, ruled by Russia for almost all of his life. His frequent theme, sites linked to the Grand Duchy's history, reflected the growing Lithuanian and Polish ethnic activism in the area.
He lived and worked in today's southern Lithuania, south-eastern Belarus, and north-eastern Poland, and travelled around in search of new subjects for his oil paintings and lithographs. A leading landscape painter of his period, Kulesza created images that are now among the sparse visual records of the region in the first half of the 19th century.
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