Michał Gorstkin Wywiórski

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Michał Gorstkin Wywiórski (born March 14, 1861 in Warsaw , † May 30, 1926 in Berlin ) was a Polish landscape painter.

He was born the son of the Russian officer Paweł Gorstkin and the Polish Józefina Wywiórska.

From 1881 to 1882 he studied chemistry at the Riga Polytechnic . During his studies he was accepted into the Riga Polish student union Arkonia . To emphasize his Polish ancestry, he added his mother's last name to his Russian surname Gorstkin. He continued studying chemistry in Zurich , but there he decided to devote himself to art. From October 26, 1883 to 1887, he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Karl Raupp and Nikolaus Gysis , and from 1883 also in the private studios of Józef Brandt and Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski .

From 1886 he worked as a freelance landscape painter in Munich. In search of landscape motifs, he went on numerous study trips. He visited u. a. the island of Sylt (around 1898), Italy (before 1899), Spain (1899–1900), Egypt (1900–1901), Norway and Sweden (around 1903–1904), the Baltic and North Sea coasts, the Carpathians (around 1906), as well as the Netherlands, the Crimea and the Caucasus.

In 1895 he moved from Munich to Berlin, where he stayed longer. In 1904 he settled in Poznan . He became a member of the Poznan Artists Association and a board member of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Poznan. He spent the end of life in Berlin.

From his marriage to Ida Małgorzata Seeling, he had sons Paweł and Piotr.

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SURNAME Gorstkin-Wywiórski, Michał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1926
Place of death Berlin