Maksymilian Cercha

The western part of the Wawel hill drawing, before the reconstruction by Maksymilian Cercha

Pakosław z Mstyczowa Lithograph by Maksymilian Cercha

Maksymilian Cercha (born October 12, 1818 in Krakow ; † June 29, 1907 ibid) was a Polish painter and draftsman, nephew of Ezekiel Cercha and father of Stanisław Cercha .

Life

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and from 1839 to 1949 at the painting and drawing school at the Technical Institute in Cracow, under Jan Napomucen Bizański , Karol Ceptowski , Jan Nepomucen Głowacki and Wojciech Korneli Stattler . Active as a drawing teacher: 1843–1844 St. Florians School; 1859–1863 monastery school in Staniątki and St. Barbara school and Krakow. - Initially painted under the influence of Głowacki Tatra landscape and miniature portraits. From around 1850 (fire in Krakow) he drew and watercolored precisely with historical texts, those of documentary. Cercha's students included Stanisław Cercha (1867–1919) and Stanisław Tarnowski (1838–1909) .

Collections of images

• Krakow , Wojewódzkie Archiwum Państwowe.
• Krakow , Emmerich-Hutten-Czapski-Museum (branch of the National Museum in Krakow) : approx. 150 works (drawings with pencil, pen and chalk; watercolors and gouache).
• Cracow , Jagiellonian Library , Gabinet Rycin: 5 drawings and 1 watercolor; Monastery in Staniątki; Queen Jadwiga distributes bread under the arms , oil on cardboard, signed, 1853.
• Krakow , Krakow City History Museum
• Lemberg , Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism: Konrad Wallenrod , oil, signed, 1841.
• Warsaw , National Museum Warsaw : 4 drawings in pencil and pen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Urszula Leszczyńska: Cercha, Maksymilian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , p. 545.
2. ↑ Feliks Kopera: Cercha Maksymilian. In: Polski słownik biograficzny. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Księgarnia Gebethnera i Wolffa, Warszawa-Kraków-Łódź-Poznań-Wolno-Zakopane, vol. 3 Brożek Jan - Chwalczewski Franciszek . Krakow 1937, p. 232.
3. ^ Zygmunt Batowski: Tarnowski, Stanislaw . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 448 . .

literature

• Stanisław Cercha: Pomniki Krakowa Maksymiliana i Stanisława Cerchów. Vol. I – III, Cracow, 1904.
• Słownik Artystów Polskich. Vol. I, 1971.
• Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un group d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers. Nouvelle Édition, Volume 2: Betto-Chilingovsky . Librairie Gründ, Paris 1976, p. 622.
• T. Dobrowolski: Sztuka Krakowa. Krakow, 1978.
• Feliks Kopera: Cercha Maksymilian. In: Polski słownik biograficzny. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Księgarnia Gebethnera i Wolffa, Warszawa-Kraków-Łódź-Poznań-Wolno-Zakopane, vol. 3: Brożek Jan - Chwalczewski Franciszek ., Krakau 1937, p. 232.
• Stanisław Lam: Ilustrowana encyklopedia Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego. Vol. 1 (A – E), Księgarnia Trzeski, Everta i Michalskiego, Warsaw, p. 554.
• Cercha, Maksymilian . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 291 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• A. Treiderowa: Kolekcja obrazów, rysunków i rzeźb PAU. In: Rocznik Biblioteki PAN w Krakowie. XVIII, Krakow 1972.
• Polska bibliografia sztuki 1801–1944. Vol. 2, Breslau 1979, Vol. 3, Breslau 1986.
• Urszula Leszczyńska: Cercha, Maksymilian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , p. 545.