Collection

Battle

Artur Grottger

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  • Battle 3
Basic information
ID
Г-I-219
Author
Artur Grottger
Name
Battle
Date of creation
1853
Technique
watercolor
Material
paper watercolor
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
53.2 x 39.2
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
This is a multi-figure and dynamic composition, which shows the battle of the cavalry in the background of mountain peaks. The plot is based on the battle of the Tatars against the Cossacks (?). One can see eleven figures clearly depicted by the author. At the bottom of the composition there is an image of a stream (?).
Inscriptions
At the bottom left there is an inscription "Year of 1853. Painted by Artur Grottger. Juliusz Kossak. 21.2.96 (?)" written in Polish.