Zygmunt bird
Zygmunt Vogel (born June 15, 1764 in Wołczyn ( Polesia ), † April 20, 1826 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter, draftsman and teacher of classicism.
Vogel was the son of Prince Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski's court chef . He lost his father as a child. The Czartoryskis helped the orphan and his mother, brought both to Warsaw . At the age of 16 Vogel went to the royal painting school as an apprentice, where he got to know and admire the vedute paintings by Bernardo Bellotto (called Canaletto).
At the order of Crown Marshal Michał Jerzy Mniszech, he copied Canaletto's vedutas , and later he began to paint his own vedute of Warsaw in watercolor .
On behalf of King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski , he visited the castles in Krzeszowice , Tęczyn, Alwernia , Lipowiec, Olkusz , Rabsztyn and Pieskowa Skała . Vogel brought back 63 watercolors and drawings from this tour.
He was often invited by the king to the elite "Thursday tables". His friends called him "Ptaszek" (little bird).
After the abdication of the king, his departure for St. Petersburg and the early death, Vogel lost his patron. He became a drawing teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum. Also Frédéric Chopin was one of his students. In 1817 he was appointed professor of perspective drawing at the art faculty of the newly founded Warsaw University.
He was buried in the Evangelical Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw (26th avenue, 6th grave).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Vogel, Siegmund . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 51. Part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1885, p. 196 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Krystyna Sroczyńska, Zygmunt Vogel. Rysownik gabinetowy Stanisława Augusta , Ossolineum, Wrocław 1969.
- Henryk Kondziela, Vogel Zygmunt , [in:] Polski słownik biograficzny konserwatorów zabytków , z. 1, Poznań, Stowarzyszenie Konserwatorów Zabytków, 2000, ISBN 83-900862-7-1 .
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| SURNAME | Vogel, Zygmunt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter, draftsman and classicist teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wołczyn ( Polesia ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1826 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |