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)
- Study of the Horse’s Head 1871-1872
- Head of a woman
- Study of a Horse 1870
- Bust of an old man from 1850 until 1875
- Study of a figure in 18th century costume for the painting “Tarło’s duel” 1869
- An Apple Tree at a Stream 1868
- Gypsy Camp II 1867
- View of Solec 1870
- Insurgents at night 1866 - 1867
- Insurgent patrol 1873
- Night circa 1872
- Raid on Soplicowo, illustration to “Pan Tadeusz” by Adam Mickiewicz 1868
- Insurgent from 1863 circa 1869
- Study of a Chestnut Horse 1872
- Landscape with a birch grove 1868 - 1869
- Sketch of a horseman, hussar circa 1869
- Artillery charge from 1866 until 1867
- Departure for hunting 1871
- Road Among Trees 1870
- Winter in a small town, sketch I 1872