Gustav Daniel Budkowski

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Gustav Daniel Budkowski (born June 5, 1813 in Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire , † August 7, 1884 in Albano Laziale , Italy ) was a Polish genre , history , portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Budkowski, son of a major, entered the Russian Cadet Corps and, in the course of military service in the Caucasus, rose to the rank of lieutenant . Then he ended his military career. In 1840 he worked at the Mühe's lithographic institute in Riga. From 1843 to 1846 he studied as a freelance listener with Fyodor Antonowitsch Bruni and Karl Pawlowitsch Brjullow at the Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg . Brjullov participated in the painting of St. Isaac's Cathedral . From 1854 he stayed for two years in the vicinity of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , and he also stayed in Paris for seven years . He also traveled within Germany and to Galicia ( Cracow ), where he exhibited repeatedly in the 1860s. In 1869 Fritz Reuter and his wife had him paint them. At the beginning of the 1870s he lived in Dresden . In 1874 he married the Danish Luise Peterson in Florence and in the same year moved with her to Rome , where they lived until his death. Budkowski found his final resting place in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.

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  1. Cf. Budkowsky, GD In: Wilhelm Neumann : Lexikon Baltischer Maler . Riga 1908, p. 24 ( digitized version )
  2. Kurt Batt (ed.): Fritz Reuter. Collected works and letters . Volume 8, Rostock 1967, p. 824
  3. Gustav Daniel Budkowski in the database of Find a Grave . Accessed April 21, 2018 (English).