Andrzej Bronisław Grabowski (Polish, 1833-1886)
Andrzej Bronisław Grabowski (Polish, 1833-1886)
Andrzej Bronisław Grabowski (Polish, 1833-1886)
Andrzej Bronisław Grabowski
Polish, 1833-1886
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Andrzej Bronisław Grabowski was a Polish painter.
In the years 1849–1855 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków under Wojciech Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. During his studies, he made friends with Artur Grottger. From 1860 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Carl Wurzinger, later in Paris and at the Munich Academy. In 1866 he moved to Lviv. In 1877, thanks to the efforts of Jan Matejko, he became a professor at the Krakow School of Fine Arts .
He painted genre and historical pictures, portraits of aristocracy and his contemporaries. His oil portraits are full of expression and good characteristics.
His younger brother Wojciech Grabowski was also a painter.