Alfred Schouppé
Alfred Schouppé (born December 13, 1812 in Grabownica Starzeńska, died April 7, 1899 in Krynica-Zdrój) was a Polish painter, and one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw.[1]
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Born | Alfred Schouppé 23 December 1812 Grabownica Starzeńska, Poland |
Died | Krynica-Zdrój, Poland | 7 April 1899
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Education | Accademia di San Luca in Rome |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Idealism |
Biography
Studied in Kraków, where he was a student of Jan Nepomucen Głowacki and Józef Richter in Warsaw. In 1837, by gaining a scholarship Schouppé began studying at the Accademia di San Luca, returning to Warsaw in 1840. He took part in a number of foreign travels, and after going into retirement in 1897 he moved out of Warsaw. Nearly every year he visited the Tatra Mountains.[2] His Tatra landscape paintings are characterised with idealism.[3] He also painted religious paintings and had been illustrating with Juliusz Kossak.[4][5]
Selected paintings
- View of the Tatras
(1849) - Smugglers
(1870) - View of Iłza
(1880)
References
- "Schouppé Alfred - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy". PWN. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- "Schouppé Alfred". z-ne.pl. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- "Alfred Schouppe". www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- "Schouppé, Alfred (1812-1899), Maler". Biographien. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- "Alfred Schouppé (1812-1899) Paintings Collection". Geocodedart. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
External links
Media related to Alfred Schouppé at Wikimedia Commons