Maurycy Gottlieb is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Maurycy Gottlieb as Polish painter and student of Jan Matejko (1856-1879).
Maurycy Gottlieb was born at Drohobych in 1856. His recorded nationality is Poland. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is french realism.
His best-known work is Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Poland shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Maurycy Gottlieb died in 1879, aged 23. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur
- Movement: French Realism
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