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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jan_MatejkoJan Matejko - Wikipedia

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   Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan aˈlɔjzɨ maˈtɛjkɔ] ⓘ; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 [nb 1] – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history.

2. artsandculture.google.com › entity › m022xx2Jan Matejko — Google Arts & Culture

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   Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings...

3. polishatheart.com › artist-jan-matejko-puttingArtist Jan Matejko - putting Poland on the map - Polish at heart

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   May 28, 2021 · Artist Jan Matejko – putting Poland on the map. The portrait of Jan Matejko’s “Copernicus: Conversations with God” recently arrived at the National Gallery in London. It is the first work of a Polish artist to be on show there and only the second time the painting has been exhibited outside its home in Kraków.

4. polishhistory.pl › jan-matejko-the-painter-ofJan Matejko: The Painter of Polish History

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   Jun 24, 2024 · Jan Matejko, The Hanging of the Sigismund bell, 1874. In 1888, Matejko began work on a cycle of twelve paintings of ‘The History of Civilisation in Poland’ series. It opens with the scene of the adoption of Christianity by Polish ruler Mieszko I.

5. www.wikiart.org › en › jan-matejkoJan Matejko - 239 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org

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   Jan Matejko lived in the XIX cent., a remarkable figure of Polish Romanticism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

   • Nationality: Polish
   • Birth Date: June 24, 1838

   • Place Of Birth: Krakow, Poland
   • Death Date: November 1, 1893

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6. krakow.travel › en › artykulMatejko – Then and Now - Kraków Travel

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   Jun 21, 2023 · Jan Alojzy Matejko was born at the tenement house there (now home to a branch of the National Museum in Krakow) on 24 June 1893, and it was there that he passed away on 1 November 1838 aged just fifty-five.

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   Where did Jan Matejko live?

   • Matejko spent most of his life in Kraków. His teachers at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts included Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. Later, he became a director at this institution, which eventually was renamed the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.

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   Where did Matejko go to school?

   • Matejko spent most of his life in Kraków. He enrolled at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts at age fourteen, where he studied under notable artists such as Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and completed his first major historical painting in 1853.

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   Why was Jan Matejko important?

   • Matejko's support for the Polish cause was not just through his art; he also contributed financially and materially to the January Uprising of 1863. Later, he became director of the art academy in Kraków, which was eventually renamed the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.

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   When was Matejko born?

   • Matejko was born on 24 June 1838, in the Free City of Kraków. [ 2 ] His father, Franciszek Ksawery Matejko (Czech: František Xaver Matějka) (born 1789 or 13 January 1793, died 26 October 1860), a Czech from the village of Roudnice, was a graduate of the Hradec Králové school who later became a tutor and music teacher. [ 2 ]

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   How did Matejko become an artist?

   • Matejko read historical books avidly as a child but wanted to be an artist and studied at the Kraków School of Fine Arts from an early age. To understand German and Italian art, he studied further in Munich and Venice.

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   How did Matejko die?

   • Matejko suffered from a peptic ulcer, and died in Kraków on 1 November of internal bleeding. [ 31 ] His funeral on 5 November drew large crowds, and his death was newsworthy in at least thirty two European newspapers. [ 37 ] He was buried in Kraków's Rakowicki Cemetery.

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8. culture.pl › en › artistJan Matejko - Biography | Artist | Culture.pl

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   Jan Matejko (born 1838 in Kraków, died 1893 in Kraków) showed the former grandeur of the Polish Republic and the glory of its armies to lift the hearts and minds of Poles and to resurrect faith in the restoration of an independent country.