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Chapel in Pidhirtsi Castle

Aleksander Gryglewski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-366
Author: Aleksander Gryglewski
Name: Chapel in Pidhirtsi Castle
Country: Kingdom of Poland (?)
Culture: Modern times
Technique: drawing
Material: cardboard pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 36.2 x 48.7

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Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Aleksander Gryglewski
Artist's lifetime: 1833–1879
Country: Kingdom of Poland
Biography: Aleksander Konstanty Gryglewski (04.03.1833–28.07.1879) was a Polish artist, teacher, and professor at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. He came from a family of minor nobility. From 1847 to 1852, he studied at a gymnasium in Krosno. Then, from 1852 to 1857, he studied together with J. Matejko, A. Grottger, and A. Kotsis at the Technical Institute in Krakow, in the Department of Fine Arts. He was friends with J. Matejko, and together they travelled to Munich to continue his studies in painting. In 1860, he returned to Krakow. Between 1863 and 1875, reproductions of A. Gryglewski's paintings were published in the magazine "Kłosy" (Ears of corn), and between 1863 and 1872 in "Tygodnik Illustrowany" (Illustrated Weekly). In 1867, he married landowner Maria Michińska, with whom he had two children: Zofia Rudnicka and Aleksander Griglewski, also an artist (1874–1940). A. Gryglewski's grandson, Jan Rudnicki (1887–1936), also became an artist. Depictions of architectural monuments occupied a prominent place in A. Gryglewski's work. In 1872–1873, the artist sketched the interiors of Łazienki Park in Warsaw; in 1873–1874, buildings in Wilanów; and in 1875, the Royal Castle and the Primate's Palace. The artist's oeuvre includes numerous recreations of architectural complexes in Vienna, Prague, Toruń, and Gdańsk. In 1871, the master worked in Lviv, Olesko, and, for the longest time, in Pidhirtsi. In 1875–1877, he lived in Krosno, where he painted landscapes and church interiors. From the autumn of 1877 to 1879, A. Gryglewski headed the Department of Perspective at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 1878–1879, he painted the interiors of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Gdańsk Town Hall. After his wife's death, the artist suffered from depression and, burdened by financial problems, probably committed suicide.

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