Maksymilian Gierymski

Maksymilian Gierymski (* October 15, 1846 in Warsaw, † September 16, 1874 in Reichenhall ), artist name Maximilian Gierymski, was a Polish painter and draftsman, brother of Aleksander Gierymski.

Life and work

Gierymski was initially mechanic and later attended the university of his native city of Warsaw, where he was a pupil of Rafał Hadziewicz. He took part in the Polish uprising 1863/64.

On the initiative of the Russian governor and commander in chief in Warsaw, General in Grafenberg, he finally devoted himself from 1867 at the Art Academy in Munich studying painting at Alexander von Wagner, Franz Adam and Eduard Schleich the Elder ..

By the latter influences, he treated the soldiers Genre in conjunction with richly developed landscape and he had already created several paintings with figures in the costume of the 18th century, which witnessed of great talent. He became one of the leading artists of the Munich Naturaliste school. He created numerous romantic paintings depicting his native Poland. Famous were his rococo hunting scenes, which, inter alia, are represented in the Old National Gallery in Berlin as well as at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He died in 1874 in Reichenhall of tuberculosis, the disease had greatly affected him for years in his work.

His brother Aleksander Gierymski (1850-1901) was also a noted painter.