Anton Blank
Anton Johann Blank (also Jan Antoni Blank-Białecki. ) (* May 6, 1785 in Allenstein , † February 20, 1844 in Warsaw ) was a Warsaw classicist portrait painter.
Born into a family of craftsmen and orphaned at an early age, he was raised in the family of the Allenstein postmaster Kober.
In 1800 he came to Warsaw to study painting in the workshop of the painter Józef Kosiński. In 1809 Anton Blank came to Dresden , where he continued his studies with the Austrian painter Josef Maria Grassi .
Back in Warsaw in 1815, he was appointed drawing teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Warsaw University and supervisor of the collection of plaster casts. In 1819 he was appointed professor at this university.
He created numerous portraits in the Biedermeier style as well as mythological and religious images.
His students included u. a. Rafał Hadziewicz , Jan Feliks Piwarski (1794–1859), Antoni Brodowski and January Suchodolski .
With his students he created pictures for churches in Ermland, a.o. a. the altarpiece and the images of the apostles Peter and Paul in the Katharinenkirche in Rössel (1821) and the Mater-Dolorosa-Bild in the Jakobskirche in Allenstein .
In the later years of his life he signed his works with Jan Antoni Blank-Białecki.
He was buried in the Warsaw Powązki Cemetery .
source
- Bogdan Suchodolski: History of Polish Culture , "Interpress", Warsaw 1986 ISBN 8322323042
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blank, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blank, Anton Johann (full name); Blank-Białecki., Jan Antoni (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Warsaw Classicist Painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1844 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |