Kazimierz Alchimowicz

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Kazimierz Alchimowicz (born December 20, 1840 in Dziembrów near Grodno , † December 31, 1916 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter who is considered to be one of the last romantics in Polish painting. Among other things, he illustrated the poem Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz with a series of twelve paintings (1898) and graphics (1903) . He was the older brother of the Polish painter Hiacynt Alchimowicz .

Life

Kazimierz Alchimowicz finished his education in Vilnius and was then a land manager in the Kiev area for a few years .

In 1863 Alchimowicz took part in the January uprising as a soldier and fought in Lithuania , for which he was deported to Verkhoturye behind the Urals . There he began to create drawings with natural motifs and pictures with a religious theme, from whose sale he financed his living. In 1869 he returned to Warsaw and began art training with Wojciech Gerson . He then studied from 1873 to 1875 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Professor Alexander Wagner .

From 1876 to 1877 he worked in Paris , took part in the Salon de Paris . In 1877 he lived in Avon , where he also painted on faience and porcelain .

From 1877 he worked in Warsaw , where he worked from 1890 in the painting and sculpture school of Bronisława Poświkowa as a drawing teacher. He won several international awards for his work.

Works (selection)

painting

• Car portrait , 1864
• Zabytki książat Aragońskich nad hiszpańską granicą
• Pogrzeb na Uralu , 1873
• Los Polaków , 1874
• Śmierć Margiera , 1875
• Lidziejko z córką na ruinach świątyni Perkuna , 1876
• Czytająca dziewczyna , 1876
• Młody męczennik , 1877
• Dziewczynka , 1877
• Więzień , 1877
• Chrześcijański męczennik , 1878
• Kasper Karliński , 1880
• Pejsaż , 1883
• Krajobraz , 1886
• Ostatnie chwile księdza Michała Glińskiego w więzieniu , 1887
• Pogrzeb Gedymina , 1888
• Pejsaż z dziewczyną , 1890
• Milda, bogini miłości , 1891
• Goplana , 1894
• Modlitwa Cierpiących , 1894
• Nad Grobem Soplicy , 1900
• Skarga Pawęski i Matejko w pozagrobowem życiu , 1902
• Portrait J. Chełmońskiego , 1913

Religious images

• Anioł Stróż , Church in Żytno
• Najświętsza Maria Panna , Church in Zakopane
• Święta Trójca , Cathedral in Lublin

Sculptures

• Crucifix, church in Brzeziny

literature

• Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Franciszek Stolot: Historia malarstwa polskiego . Krakow 2000, ISBN 83-8808044-X .
• Irena Jakimowiczowa: Alchimowicz Kazimierz . In: Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających . tape 1 . Breslau / Warsaw / Krakow / Danzig 1971, p. 18-20 .
• Mieczysław Treter: Alchimowicz Kazimierz . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny . tape 1 . Krakow 1935, p. 55-56 .

Web links

Commons : Kazimierz Alchimowicz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography (Polish)