Alfred Schouppé | |
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Born | Alfred Schouppé 23 December 1812
Grabownica Starzeńska, Poland |
Died |
Krynica-Zdrój, Poland | 7 April 1899
Nationality | Polish |
Education | Accademia di San Luca in Rome |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Idealism |
Alfred Schouppé (born December 13, 1812, in Grabownica Starzeńska, died April 7, 1899, in Krynica-Zdrój) was a Polish painter, and one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw. [1]
Studied in Kraków, where he was a student of Jan Nepomucen Głowacki and Józef Richter in Warsaw. In 1837, by gaining a scholarship Schouppé began studying at the Accademia di San Luca, returning to Warsaw in 1840. He took part in a number of foreign travels, and after going into retirement in 1897 he moved out of Warsaw. Nearly every year he visited the Tatra Mountains. [2] His Tatra landscape paintings are characterised with idealism. [3] He also painted religious paintings and had been illustrating with Juliusz Kossak. [4] [5]
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Alfred Schouppé | |
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Born | Alfred Schouppé 23 December 1812
Grabownica Starzeńska, Poland |
Died |
Krynica-Zdrój, Poland | 7 April 1899
Nationality | Polish |
Education | Accademia di San Luca in Rome |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Idealism |
Alfred Schouppé (born December 13, 1812, in Grabownica Starzeńska, died April 7, 1899, in Krynica-Zdrój) was a Polish painter, and one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw. [1]
Studied in Kraków, where he was a student of Jan Nepomucen Głowacki and Józef Richter in Warsaw. In 1837, by gaining a scholarship Schouppé began studying at the Accademia di San Luca, returning to Warsaw in 1840. He took part in a number of foreign travels, and after going into retirement in 1897 he moved out of Warsaw. Nearly every year he visited the Tatra Mountains. [2] His Tatra landscape paintings are characterised with idealism. [3] He also painted religious paintings and had been illustrating with Juliusz Kossak. [4] [5]
Media related to Alfred Schouppé at Wikimedia Commons