Aleksander Kokular
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Aleksander Kokular (9 August 1793,
Freemason
. Portraits (contemporary and historical) and mythological scenes were his specialties.
Biography
He was born to a merchant family and first studied painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied with Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, then spent a year at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.[2]
He returned to Warsaw in 1818 and became a teacher.
For a year, he taught
piarist boarding school, then became a teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum in 1821. He went back to Rome on a government scholarship from 1824 to 1826,[1] where he came under the influence of Vincenzo Camuccini
. After his return, he remained at the Lyceum until it was closed by the Russian government in 1831.
From 1835 to 1841, he operated a private art school from his home and, from 1838 to 1840, was a lecturer at the "Alexandria Institute for Young Ladies". Then, from 1841 to 1844, he was a teacher at the newly-established Royal Gymnasium.[2]
In 1844, he joined with
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
.
Among his most familiar contemporary portraits are those of Tsar
Brześć. His collection consisted mostly of contemporary works, although he restored and sold antique paintings from the collection of Count Potocki.[2]
References
- ^ a b Biography and appreciation from the Biographical Album of distinguished Polish men and women of the nineteenth century @ Polish Wikisource.
- ^ a b c d Brief biography from the Polski Słownik Biograficzny @ the Muzeum Pałac w Wilanowie.
Further reading
- Błażej Szyszkowski, Aleksander Kokular: malarz i opiekun kolekcji wilanowskiej (exhibition catalog), Muzeum Pałac w Wilanowie, 2012
External links
Media related to Aleksander Kokular at Wikimedia Commons
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