Aleksander Orłowski: life and works

Aleksander Orłowski (9 March 1777 – 13 March 1832) was a Polish painter and sketch artist, and a trailblazer of lithography in the Russian Empire.

Orłowski was born in 1777 in Warsaw into an impoverished noble family, his dad was a tavern-keeper. In before childhood he became known as a prodigy, and soon Izabela Czartoryska financed his first painting classes once the performer Jan Piotr Norblin. In 1793 Orłowski allied the Polish Army and fought in the Kościuszko Uprising adjacent to Imperial Russia and Prussia; he was put out and returned to Warsaw for additional studies, financed by Prince Józef Poniatowski. He studied like many notable painters of the age, including Norblin, Marcello Bacciarelli and Wincenty Lesserowicz.

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In 1802, after the Partitions of Poland, he moved to Russia, where he became a opportunist of lithography.

His works enlarge countless sketches of everyday activity in Poland and Russia, and scenes from the Kościuszko Uprising and extra Polish wars.

Aleksander Orłowski is mentioned in Pan Tadeusz, a poem written by Adam Mickiewicz in 1834, as well as in Alexander Pushkin’s works.

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