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March of Polish Lancers Under the Hill Near Kielce

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-I-378
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: March of Polish Lancers Under the Hill Near Kielce
Country: Austrian Empire (?)
Culture: Modern times
Technique: watercolour
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 18 x 18

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Type: graphic art
Genre: battle painting
Plot: Battle
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Country: Austrian Empire
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 the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). Artur Grottger is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism, as well as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolourist. 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 severe illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

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