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Jan Matejko
Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Pol…
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culture · Polish painter (1838–1893) · painter · university teacher · also Jan Matejko, Jan Alojzy Matejko, Johann Matejko, Jana Matejki, j. matejko, jan matejko
Born 24 June 1838 · Died 1 November 1893 · Q189117
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2023· 2 entries
PolskieRadio: Jan Matejko to be celebrated this month in New York
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2020· 1 entry
culture.pl: Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God – Jan Matejko
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2010· 1 entry
culture.pl: Battle of Grunwald – Jan Matejko
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1978· 1 entry
Became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Historic Centre of Kraków
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1893· 1 entry
Died 1893-11-01.
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1892· 1 entry
A year before his death, he completed his Self-portrait (Autoportret)
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1888· 1 entry
Completed The Battle of Racławice (Bitwa pod Racławicami)
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1887· 1 entry
Matejko received an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University, and recognition from the Austrian Society, Litteris et Artibus
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1886· 1 entry
Finished a painting relating to French rather than Polish history, The Virgin of Orléans, a portrayal of Joan of Arc
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1883· 1 entry
Finished Jan Sobieski at Vienna (Jan Sobieski pod Wiedniem) which came to be presented to Pope Leo XIII as a "gift of the Polish nation"
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1879· 1 entry
Came his Rok 1863 - Polonia (The Year 1863 - Polonia), his depiction of the January Uprising
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1878· 1 entry
Produced another masterpiece, The Battle of Grunwald
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1874· 1 entry
Finished Zawieszenie dzwonu Zygmunta (The Hanging of the Sigismund bell)
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1872· 2 entries
During an exhibition in Prague he was offered the directorship of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, quickly followed by a similar offer from the Kraków School of Fine Arts
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Visited Istanbul and upon his return to Kraków finished The Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (Astronom Kopernik, czyli rozmowa z Bogiem), which was acquired by the Jagiellonian University
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1869· 1 entry
Médaille d'or at the Salon de Paris in 1867 for Rejtan
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1867· 1 entry
His painting Rejtan was awarded a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris and was acquired by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria for 50,000 franks
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1864· 1 entry
As the Uprising was waning, he abandoned the canvas for a number of years, perhaps due to the loss of several close friends and family members in the conflict
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1860· 1 entry
Against a background of cultural erosion in partitioned Poland Matejko published an illustrated album, Clothes in Poland (Ubiory w Polsce), a project reflecting his intense interest in the historical record of his nation
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1859· 1 entry
Matejko received a scholarship to study with Hermann Anschütz at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
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1858· 2 entries
Studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (1852–1858).
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Was Sigismund I the Old ennobles professors of the Jagiellonian University (Zygmunt I nadaje szlachectwo profesorom Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) and proved to be seminal
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1853· 1 entry
(he would return to this theme a year before his death, in 1892
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1845· 1 entry
Jan and his siblings were cared for by his maternal aunt, Anna Zamojska
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1838· 1 entry
Born 1838-06-24.
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