Artur Grottger

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Self-portrait 1867, National Museum Warsaw

Artur Grottger (born November 11, 1837 in Ottyniowice , ( Galicia ), † December 13, 1867 in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda , Département Pyrénées-Orientales ) was a Polish painter and draftsman.

Life

Grottger's grave in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv

Artur Grottger began his studies at home and later went to Vienna , where he became a student of Karl von Blaas at the art academy . His ingenious talent, enhanced by patriotic enthusiasm, was revealed early on in a cycle of charcoal drawings that dealt with the failed January uprising in his home country and recall Jan Matejko in the passionate description .

Grottger died four weeks after his 30th birthday on December 13, 1867 in the Pyrenees bath Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda. His drawings (partly in the possession of Count Pálffy ) have been reproduced photographically.

plant

Young girl, National Museum Warsaw
Phryne 1867, National Museum Warsaw
The bound Poland . From the cycle "Polonia" (1863)
Artur Grottger Monument in Kraków ( Cracow )

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Grottger, Arthur . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 420 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Artur Grottger: In the valley of tears. [Explanatory words from HM]. Angerer, Vienna 1875.
  • Alfred von Wurzbach (text): Arthur Grottger's sketch book . Miethke, Vienna 1875.
  • FM Aren (Karoline von Gizycka-Gosdowa): Arthur Grottger. A reminiscence . Rosner, Vienna 1878.
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Grottger, Arthur . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 784. * Lituania. Artura Grottgera album. Sześć obrazów z objaśnieniami . (Lituania. Artur Grottger's album.). Kraków, Latarnia 1904.
  • Frantisek Táborský: Arthur Grottger, jeho laśka a dílo; z jeho deníků a listů památníků jeho snoubenky. (Arthur Grottger. Son amour et son oeuvre). Praha: Orbis, 1933 (Praće slovanského ústavu, 10).
  • Grottger, Artur. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 79.
  • Mariusz Bryl: Artur Grottger (1837–1867) between national and artistic identity . In: Art and national Identity in Poland and England (1996), pp. 84-95.

Web links

Commons : Artur Grottger  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the valley of tears . In: Ludwig Cabinet: Photographische Correspondenz , 5th year, 1868, pp. 213–214. It's about reproductions of originals that Ludwig Angerer made after buying them from the family.
personal data
SURNAME Grottger, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottyniowice , ( Galicia )
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1867
Place of death Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda