Wojciech Gerson is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Wojciech Gerson as Polish painter (1831-1901).
Wojciech Gerson was born at Warsaw in 1831. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Imperial Academy of Arts.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, art historian and illustrator.
His recorded movement is romanticism.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Wojciech Gerson died in 1901, aged 70. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Romanticism
