"Conciliation", 1864, oil on canvas, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Nocturne", 1864, oil on cardboard, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Evening Prayer of a Farmer", 1895, oil on canvas, 45 x 55 cm, National Museum, Cracow

"Sigismund III Square", 1862, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
"Portrait of Rosalie Matylda Glaser", 1864, oil on canvas, 118 x 99.5 cm, Silesian Museum, Katowice

[...] 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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