In the history of art, Kazimierz Alchimowicz is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Kazimierz Alchimowicz as Lithuanian-born Polish romantic painter (1840-1916).
Kazimierz Alchimowicz was born at Dembrava in 1840. His recorded nationality is Congress Poland. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and sculptor.
His recorded movement is romanticism.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Congress Poland shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Kazimierz Alchimowicz died in 1916, aged 76. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Romanticism
