The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michalowski's Sketchbook of 1832

by Jan K Ostrowski and Ostrowski

The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michalowski (1800-55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michalowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830-31, he was responsible for producing weapons for the Polish army, and would later head for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631851391
• ISBN13: 9783631851395
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 116 Pages