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Arab Man

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/4
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Arab Man
Date of creation: 1849 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 19.1 x 22.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: narrative art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Biography: Artur Grottger was born in 1837 in the village of Otynevychi in the Lviv region (former Ottyniowice, Eastern Galicia). He studied at the Lviv School of Painting of Jan Maszkowski, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). He is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism. He is known as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolorist. He is the author of six patriotic art cycles regarding the January Uprising against the Russian occupation of Poland of 1863, portraits, and local history materials. Artur Grottger died after a serious illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

Object description

In the center of the composition there is an Arab horseman wearing a turban and wide oriental pants. The rider’s figure is turned to the viewer’s left. On this face there is a large curled up moustache. Pistol and dagger handles are seen in his belt. The rider's horse is highly decorated; its tail is raised.

Arab Man

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