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The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( Polish: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ASP ), [1] is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Polish fine art academy, established in 1818 and granted full autonomy in 1873.
Jan MatejkoArtworks. View all 239 artworks. Jan Matejko lived in the XIX cent., a remarkable figure of Polish Romanticism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Polish
- June 24, 1838
- Krakow, Poland
- November 1, 1893
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Author: Culture.pl. Share: The painter who lived and worked in Kraków is considered the finest representative of historicism in Polish painting and founder of the national school of historical painting.
Jun 24, 1838 - Nov 1, 1893. 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...
Matejko represented the trend of historical painting, he was a draughtsman, collector, professor and long-term director of the School of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a precursor of the...
He was the principal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Among his students were Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanisław Wyspiański. Matejko died on 1 November 1893 in Kraków. He is buried at Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków. Works. Matejko is famous for his historical paintings.
