Aleksander Sochaczewski

Aleksander Sochaczewski (actually Sonder Lajb ; born May 3, 1843 in Iłów , today's Sochaczew district , then Congress Poland ; † April 15, 1923 in Biedermannsdorf ) was a Polish painter of Jewish origin who had taken part in the preparations for the January uprising against the Russian Empire .

Sochaczewski studied painting at the Warsaw Art Academy from 1858. He became politically active as a student and fought for Polish independence.

On September 1, 1862, he was arrested and taken to the citadel in Warsaw . Guns, molds for casting bullets, newspapers and leaflets with conspiratorial and revolutionary content were found in his apartment. On the basis of this evidence, he was sentenced to death on April 24, 1863. Under Tsar Alexander II, the sentence was converted into a 20-year exile to Siberia . His paintings of the exiles and the forced labor in Siberian exile are known.

After returning from Siberia, he moved to Munich . He later lived in Brussels and from 1901 settled permanently in Vienna . His daughter is the biologist and writer Annie Harrar .

gallery

"Farewell to Europe" 1863 (the artist is among the prisoners, on the right near the obelisk)
“Branka” (young Poles were drafted into the Russian Imperial Army in 1863).
Painting before 1923 from a scene in Siberia

Web links

Commons : Aleksander Sochaczewski - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Alexandre Sochaczewski (1843–1923), peintre du tragique exil de Sibérie ( Memento from December 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
Dark epoch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1984 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b biography on the website of the Museum in the Citadel Warsaw (Polish)
^ ^A ^b Magdalena Szczęsny-Mrówczyńska: Pamiętnik malarski Aleksandra Sochaczewskiego . In: Wiedza i Życie , no.1 , 1996

↑ NEWLY RELEASED: Annie Francé-Harrar: “That's How It Was Around Nineteen Hundred”. In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1963 ( online - Jan. 16, 1963 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Sochaczewski, Aleksander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lajb, special
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iłów , Sochaczew County
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1923
Place of death	Biedermannsdorf

[museum-1] raphy on the website of the Museum in the Citadel Warsaw (Polish)

[wiz-2] A ^b Magdalena Szczęsny-Mrówczyńska: Pamiętnik malarski Aleksandra Sochaczewskiego . In: Wiedza i Życie , no.1 , 1996

[spiegel-45141985-3] NEWLY RELEASED: Annie Francé-Harrar: “That's How It Was Around Nineteen Hundred”. In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1963 ( online - Jan. 16, 1963 ).