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"Portrait of Wincenty Bobrowski", 1866, crayon on paper, 55 x 42 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Portrait of Mare", 1858, watercolour on paper, 27.5 x 36.5 cm, Museum of Art, Lodz
"Reading Elder", charcoal, crayon on paper, 24.5 x 30.6 cm, Museum of Art, Lodz
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"Escadron Schritt", 1856, watercolour on paper, 16.5 x 20.3 cm, Museum of Art, Lodz
"Portrait of Ludwika", 1866, crayon on paper, 52 x 42 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Portrait of Helena Kochanowska", c. 1866, pastel, crayon on paper, 46 x 35 cm, National Museum, Kielce
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"Crossing the Border", 1865, oil on canvas, 53.5 x 42.5 cm, National Museum, Cracow
"Father and Daughter in the Siberian Mine", after 1863, oil on canvas, 67 x 99 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Portrait of Jerzy Lubomirski", 1866, oil on canvas, 75 x 61.7 cm, National Museum, Wroclaw
[...] 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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