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
- Society in the Saski Garden 1867
- View of marshes at sunset
- Wymarsz powstańców ze wsi w 1863 roku 1867 - 1868
- Artillery charge from 1866 until 1867
- Still life between 1850 and 1875
- Cavalcade in a Birch Grove 1870 - 1871
- Departure for the Hunt, sketch 1871 - 1872
- Return from hunting 1872
- Insurgent from 1863 circa 1869
- Landscape at sunrise 1869
- Resting on a hunt from 1872 until 1873
- Study of a Chestnut Horse 1872
- Night circa 1872
- Powiśle in Warsaw 1870
- Sketch of a horseman, hussar circa 1869
- Raid on Soplicowo, illustration to “Pan Tadeusz” by Adam Mickiewicz 1868
- Insurgent patrol 1873
- Road Among Trees 1870
- Head of a woman