Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski (1846 in Warsaw – 1874 in Reichenhall, Bavaria) was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.
As a seventeen-year-old boy, he participated in the January Uprising. He was educated at the Warsaw Drawing School initially, but then acknowledged a supervision scholarship in 1867 and went to psychoanalysis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He became one of the leading painters of the Munich possible school. Initially best known for this battle paintings, he as a consequence created many landscape paintings, especially of southern Poland, which he visited several times.
Completely well-to-do in western Europe, he did not get approval nor popularity in Poland of the 19th century, although he sent paintings to exhibitions in Warsaw regularly from 1868 on.
Maciej Masłowski: Maksymilian Gierymski i jego czasy (Maksymilian Gierymski and His Times), Warsaw 1970, ed. “PIW” (National Publishing Institute, 2nd edition – 1976).
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