Maurycy Gottlieb

Painting, Visual Artist

1856 – 1879

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Who was Maurycy Gottlieb?

Maurycy Gottlieb was a Polish-Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period. He was born in Drohobych to a wealthy, Yiddish-Polish-speaking orthodox Jewish family living in Galicia, then part of the Austrian sector of the Partitioned Poland, now Western Ukraine. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko he died at the age of 23.

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Born
1856
Drohobych
Siblings
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
  • Poles
Education
  • Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Died
Jul 17, 1879
Kraków

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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