Franciszek Ksawery Lampi

Franz Xaver Ferdinand von Lampi, called in Poland also Franciszek Ksawery Lampi ( born January 22, 1782 Klagenfurt, Austria, † July 22, 1852 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter acting in the Italian - Austrian descent.

Life

Francis was the son of the painter Johann Baptist Lampi and brother of Johann Baptist Lampi Jr., who was also a painter. His first art teacher was his father, then he studied with Heinrich Füger and Hubert Maurer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. According to family quarrels with his father, he left Vienna and went first to Germany and Italy, before he came to Warsaw in 1815, where he settled permanently. Trips led him in 1819 by a number of Polish cities, 1823 to Vienna, in 1836 and 1840 to Wroclaw to Dresden, Munich and Berlin. Lampi was in Warsaw teacher of Piotr Michałowski, Wojciech Stattler and others. He died there in 1852 during a raging cholera epidemic.

Importance

Franz Xaver Lampi was in Polish society very successful painter and is considered one of the most important representatives of Romanticism in Polish painting. He created numerous images that skillfully technically, the then prevailing taste corresponded. His main themes were portraits ( Lampi portrayed all the important representatives of Polish society ), religious and mythological images, fantastic and romantic landscapes. Images in the public domain are mainly located in Poland, especially in Warsaw's National Museum.