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Maksymilian Gierymski
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Maksymilian Gierymski
(1846-1874)
BATALIST
GREAT COLORIST
EXCELLENT LANDSCAPIST
PIONEER OF POLISH REALISM
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Maksymilian Gierymski
1846
(9 October) Maksymilian Gierymski, son of Józef (administrator of the Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw) and Julia née Kielichowska was born in Warsaw. The talented and sensitive Maksymilian attended the Real Middle School and simultaneously took piano lessons.
1862
graduated from the Reals Gymnasium and began engineering studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute in Puławy (the school was a living centre of conspiracy)
1863
As a 17-year-old Maksymilian Gierymski took part in the January Uprising. His stay in the insurgent "party" was the most important experience in life, a bitter and dramatic initiation into adult life. Many months of wandering around the woods, endless, gruelling marches, camps in snow and mud - the young officer learned all the brutal prose of the insurgent everyday life.
1864
after the fall of the uprising, he returned to Warsaw and, fortunately avoiding political repression, began his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Main School
1865
After just one year, he enrolled in the newly opened Drawing Class, but a modest Warsaw university could not satisfy a demanding student. Lessons of correct, conventional painters, Maksymilian Gierymski complemented his knowledge with a well-known battalionist Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), who did not spare him friendly, artistic consultations.
1866
started to exhibit and cooperate with the editors of illustrated magazines. He was helped by his younger brother Aleksander Gierymski, who also dreamt of an artistic future.
1867
Maksymilian Gierymski received a 2-year government scholarship to study abroad and went to Munich to study. There, together with other great Polish painters of the 19th century, he and other 19th century painters, including Józef Chełmoński, Juliusz Kossak and Wojciechem Kossak and Stanisław Witkiewicz co-founded the so-called Munich group.
1869
After 2 years of studies, the artist already rented his own studio and lived with his brother Aleksander Gierymski. Further orders from merchants and awards for Maximilian Gierymski began to multiply, one of the paintings went into the collection of Emperor Franz Joseph, other works were immediately purchased by German and Swiss Kunsthändlers - many of them were lost to Poland forever.
1871
he started a series of costumed rococo hunting costumes - so-called "zopfs" (German der Zopf - wig, braid), which were an excuse for the artist to paint a family landscape
1873
Maksymilian Gierymski was successful at the World Exhibition in Vienna, where he was awarded the medal "for painting". Unfortunately, this year also saw the first symptoms of lung disease, which was probably the result of inhumane combat conditions during the January Uprising.
1874
was appointed (next to Jana Matejko) as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin
1874
Maximilian Gierymski died of tuberculosis on 16 September at the Bad Reichenhall health resort
Interesting facts:
Music
Maksymilian Gierymski masterfully interpreted the Romantics: Chopin and Wagner. He also used characteristic musical terminology when writing about art. Music remained his great passion for the rest of his life.
Brother
In painting particular arrangements, hunters' gestures - riding or dismounting - Maximilian Gierymski uses auxiliary photographs, for which he is posed by his younger brother Aleksander, dressed in a rococo tailcoat and sitting on a wooden goat.
