"In the Saxon Garden", 1863, oil on cardboard, 39.5 x 49.5 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Settling Accounts", oil on cardboard, 30.5 x 39 cm, private collection
"Wurde der Frauen", 1857, watercolour, ink on paper, 42 x 62 cm, private collection

"Escape of the King of Poland (Flucht des Polenkönigs)", 1857, watercolour, 19 x 15.5 cm (7.5 x 6.1 in), private collection
"Girl with Fruit", 1860, oil on canvas, 95 x 73.5 cm (37.4 x 28.9 in), private collection
"Meeting of King John III Sobieski with Emperor Leopold I near Schwechat", 1859, oil on canvas, 101 x 157 cm, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

"Reconnaissance", 1862, oil on canvas, 39.5 x 49.7 cm, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Farewell of an Insurrectionist", 1866, oil on cardboard, National Museum, Cracow
"Welcome", 1865, oil on panel, 52.7 x 40.6 cm, National 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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