Michał Kulesza
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The Romantic painter Michał Kulesza (26 November 1799 – 6 November 1863) was among the first lithographers in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, ruled by Russia for almost all of his life. His frequent theme, sites linked to the Grand Duchy's history, reflected the growing Lithuanian and Polish ethnic activism in the area. He lived and worked in today's southern Lithuania, south-eastern Belarus, and north-eastern Poland, and traveled around in search of new subjects for his oil paintings and lithographs. A leading landscape painter of his period, Kulesza created images that are now among the sparse visual records of the region in the first half of the 19th century.
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Michał Kulesza | |
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Born | Michał Aleksander Piotr Kulesza (1799-11-26)26 November 1799 |
Died | 6 November 1863(1863-11-06) (aged 63) |
Nationality | Polish |
Education | PhD (Imperial University of Vilnius) |
Known for | Oil painting, lithography |
Notable work | "Hussars Poised to Strike," "Barbara Radziwiłł," "Sts. Boris and Gleb's Church in Kalozha, Hrodna" |
Movement | Romanticism |
Patron(s) | Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński |
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