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Merwart Paweł

Merwart Paweł (ur. 1855 Marianówka, zm. 1902 Saint-Pierre in Martinique).
Son of a French and Polish woman. He studied in Vienna, w 1876 in Munich, 1877 in Dusseldorf, 1877-84 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He painted portraits (m.in. portrait
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Minister of Health Zygmunt

Minister of Health Zygmunt (ur. 1896 Lviv, He died 20 of August 1986, Riverdale, New York, United States).
Painter. He began his artistic studies in Lviv, simultaneously dealing with the restoration of churches in the provinces. W 1918 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, w
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Mehoffer Józef

Mehoffer Józef (ur. 1869 Ropczyce, zm. 1946 Wadowice).
Józef Mehoffer b. 19.03.1869 r. in Ropczyce, zm. 08.07.1946 r. in Wadowice. After graduating from St.. Anna in Krakow, he studied at the local School of Fine Arts under the supervision of W.. Łuszczkiewicz and J. Matejko
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Matejko, Jan: Battle of Grunwald

Matejko, Jan: Battle of Grunwald

 

15 July 1410 a battle was fought on the fields near Grunwald in the year, in which the united Polish and Lithuanian-Ruthenian troops led by the Polish king Władysław Jagiełło achieved a great victory over the Teutonic army. It was the beginning of the fall
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Matejko, Jan: Copernicus

Matejko, Jan: Copernicus

 

Copernicus, 1873
oil, canvas, 322 x 545 cm;
Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Matejko's vision of Nicolaus Copernicus, based on the study of the astronomer's portraits, exact and faithful as regards the external resemblance of the face, however, it has remarkably individual features. Image
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Matejko, Jan: Batory near Pskov

Matejko, Jan: Batory near Pskov

 

Batory near Pskov, 1872
oil, canvas, 322 x 545 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw

An event from the Polish-Moscow war for Livonia, conducted in the years 1578-1582 by Stefan Batory, it has become the subject of the painting, which “belongs to
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Matejko, Jan: Regent

Matejko, Jan: Regent

 

Regent, 1866
oil, canvas, 282 x 487 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw
The shameful partition system, under which Prussia, Russia and Austria divided part of the Polish lands, was approved by the Polish Sejm, gathered at the Warsaw Castle
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Matejko, Jan: Complaint's sermon

Matejko, Jan: Complaint's sermon

 

Complaint's sermon, 1864
oil, canvas, 224 x 397 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw
“No Pole has painted anything like it” – wrote Fr. Sermon of Complaints one of the critics (Stanisław Tarnowski). Substantially, in this work of only 26 years old
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