Jan Styka
Painting, Visual Artist
1858 – 1925
Who was Jan Styka?
Jan Styka was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas. He was also illustrator and poet. Known also as a great patriotic speaker - his speeches were printed in 1915 under the French title L'ame de la Pologne.
Styka, son of an officer in Austria-Hungary, attended school in his native Lwów then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria following which he took up residence in Kraków in 1882 where he studied historical painting under Jan Matejko. Next he came back to Lwów and opened there a workshop. Here, together with a celebrated Polish historical painter Wojciech Kossak, they created his most famous work in Poland - The Racławice Panorama. Later he travelled to Italy for a short time before moving to France where the great art movements at Montmartre and Montparnasse were taking shape and where he would spend a large part of his life.
Among Styka's important works is the large scene of Saint Peter preaching the Gospel in the Catacombs painted in Paris in 1902.
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- Born
- Apr 8, 1858
Lviv - Also known as
- Стыка, Ян
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Lived in
- Lviv
- Died
- Apr 11, 1925
Rome
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on July 23, 2013
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