"Portrait of Maria Sawiczewska, Artist's Sister", c. 1863-64, oil on panel, 63 x 49 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Portrait of a Bearded Man", oil on canvas, 53 x 39.5 cm, private collection
"In a Stable", c. 1860, oil on canvas, 32 x 39 cm, private collection

"Attack of Swedes on a German Village", 1854 or 1855, watercolour on paper, 40 x 53.5 cm, private collection
"Horse Ride", c. 1856, watercolour on paper, 35.6 x 56.5 cm, private collection
"Girl", 1860, oil on canvas, 37.5 x 29.3 cm, National Museum, Warsaw

"Self-Portrait", 1867, oil on canvas, 55.5 x 46 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Flight of King Henry de Valois from Poland", 1860, oil on canvas, 100.5 x 158.7 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Fryne", 1867, oil on canvas, 97 x 62 cm, Czartoryski Museum, Cracow

[...] Artur Grottger, [...] the significance of his art for national consciousness is comparable only with the impact of the great Matejko canvases. Alongside a modest number of paintings, the most important achievement of his short life are cycles of drawings whose themes are connected with the events of the 1863 January Uprising: Warsaw I, Warsaw II, Polonia, Lithuania, and War. The simple crayon technique and the small scale of the Grottger cartoons are supported by a photographic reproduction technique, which, despite censorship restrictions, assured widespread reception. By combining poetic symbolism with epic narration, creating heroes both typical and ideal, and transforming a contemporary uprising into a holy timeless war, Grottger, as no other artist, contributed to building a complex of Polish myths and patriotic-martyrological stereotypes, always revived at times of threat. [*]

Artist’s paintings in: malarze.com

Artist biography at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Grottger

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