Antoni Brodowski
Antoni Brodowski (* before December 26, 1784 in Warsaw ; † March 31, 1832 there ) was a Polish classicist painter.
He came to Paris in 1805 as tutor for the children of Tadeusz Mostowski and stayed until 1808. In 1809 he returned to Paris as a scholarship holder of the Warsaw government. He studied in Paris with Jacques-Louis David and François Gérard . 1814 returned to Warsaw and was employed as a civil servant. In 1819 he was awarded a gold medal for the painting "Saul's Wrath Towards David" and appointed professor of drawing and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Warsaw University.
He mainly dealt with portrait painting. He also created mythological and religious compositions such as " Oedipus and Antigone ", "Paris in a Phrygian cap"
source
- Krystyna Sroczyńska: Antoni Brodowski, 1784-1832, Życie i dzieło , (Life and Work), Agencja Wydawnicza Varsovia, 1985, ISBN 8385018034
- Brodowski, Antoni . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brodowski, Antoni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish classicism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before December 26, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1832 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |