Maksymilian Gierymski
Leading Munich realist, watercolorist
Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski 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.
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Siblings
- Aleksander Gierymski Elder
Artworks by this artist (37 total)
- Reconnaissance by Kuban Cossacks between 1868 and 1869
- Study of a Horse 1870
- Costume Scene 1872
- Road Among Trees 1870
- An Apple Tree at a Stream 1868
- Order dispatch circa 1869
- Still Life 1868
- Society in the Saski Garden 1867
- Artillery charge from 1866 until 1867
- Study of a figure in 18th century costume for the painting “Tarło’s duel” 1869
- Study of the Horse’s Head 1871-1872
- View of marshes at sunset
- Insurgent from 1863 circa 1869
- Departure for the Hunt, sketch 1871 - 1872
- Resting on a hunt from 1872 until 1873
- Study of a Chestnut Horse 1872
- Insurgent patrol 1873
- Departure for hunting 1871
- Insurgents at night 1866 - 1867
- View of Solec 1870