Jan Nepomucen Głowacki
Deceased Person
1802 – 1847
Who was Jan Nepomucen Głowacki?
Jan Nepomucen Głowacki was a Polish realist painter of the Romantic era, regarded as the most outstanding landscape painter of the early 19th century in Poland under the foreign partitions. Głowacki studied painting at the Kraków School of Fine Arts and later at the academies of Prague and Vienna, as well as Rome and Munich. He returned to Kraków in 1828, and became a teacher of painting and drawing. From 1842 he served as a professor in the Faculty of Landscape Painting at the School of Fine Arts. His work can be found at the National Museum of Poland and its branches. Some of his work was looted by Nazi Germany in World War II and has never been recovered.
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- Born
- 1802
Kraków - Also known as
- Гловацкий, Ян Непомуцен
- Education
- Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
- Lived in
- Kraków
- Died
- 1847
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on July 23, 2013
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