Maurycy Gottlieb
Maurycy Gottlieb | |
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Austrian Poland | |
Nationality | Polish |
Education | Academies in Kraków, Vienna and Munich |
Known for | Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, 1878 |
Movement | Realism |
Maurycy Gottlieb (ⓘ; 21/28 February 1856 – 17 July 1879)[1] was a Polish realist painter of the Romantic period.[2] Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottllieb died at the age of 23.[3]
Career
Gottlieb was born in
In the fall of 1878, Gottlieb travelled to Rome, where he befriended Henryk Siemiradzki. At a banquet in his residence at Via Gaeta, Gottlieb met with Matejko, who convinced him to come back to Kraków as one of his best students,[3] to work on a series of monumental paintings including scenes from the history of the Jews in Poland.
In 1879 Gottlieb settled in Kraków and began working on his new major project.[4] He died in the same year from health complications. Matejko attended his funeral and promised his father to look after his younger brother Marcin.[5]
Gottlieb won a gold medal at the
Despite his premature death at the age of 23, more than three hundred of his works survive (mostly sketches, but also oil paintings),[2] though not all are finished.[6] After the fall of the Iron Curtain, many Polish collections unknown in the Western Bloc were popularized, and his reputation grew greatly. His brother, Leopold Gottlieb, was born five years after his death and became known as a painter as an adult.
Gallery
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Recha welcomingNational Museum of Warsaw
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Shylock and Jessica, 1876
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Christ Preaching atWarsaw)
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ a b "Gottlieb, Maurycy" [Gottlieb, Maurice]. Malarstwo, Europa (in Polish). Encyklopedia WIEM. Archived from the original on 17 January 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ a b c "Maurycy (Moses) Gottlieb, Drohobycz 1856 – Kraków 1879" [Maurice (Moses) Gottlieb, Drohobycz 1856 – Cracow 1879] (in Polish). Pinakoteka Zascianek.pl. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Ewa Micke-Broniarek. "Maurycy Gottlieb" (in Polish). Adam Mickiewicz Institute Culture.pl. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Ezra Mendelsohn, "See: Letter of Maurycy's father, Isak Gottlieb, in Der Israelit, No. 15, 8 August, 1879", Art and Jewish–Polish Relations: Matejko and Gottlieb at the National Museum in Warsaw, Central European University. Public Lecture Series.
- ^ a b Erik Weems, Biography of Maurycy Gottlieb Archived 16 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine at Eeweems.com, Richmond VA. Retrieved 19 November 2012
References
- Małaszewska, Wanda (1996). "Gottlieb, Maurycy". In Jane Turner (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 13. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
- Nehama Guralnik: In the Flower of Youth: Maurycy Gottlieb. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dvir Publishers, 1991.
- Jerzy Malinowski: Maurycy Gottlieb. Arkady, Warsaw (1997), ISBN 83-213-3891-7
- Ezra Mendelsohn: Painting a people: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. Brandeis University Press, Hanover, New Hampshire; ISBN 1-58465-179-2(2002)
External links
- Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, in Poem for Rent project.
- Głowa starca – oil painting by Gottlieb in Central Jewish Library