PAINTER

Jan Matejko

1838 - 1893

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Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan aˈlɔjzɨ maˈtɛjkɔ] ; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Matejko is the 164th most popular painter (up from 186th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Poland (up from 103rd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Painter.

Jan Matejko was a Polish painter and sculptor. He is most famous for his paintings of the history of Poland.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan Matejko ranks 164 out of 2,023. Before him are Nicolai Abildgaard, Théodore Rousseau, Pinturicchio, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Fernando Botero, and Carl Larsson. After him are Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Paul Delaroche, Umberto Boccioni, Jacob Jordaens, and Tamara de Lempicka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Jan Matejko ranks 8. Before him are Georges Bizet, Liliʻuokalani, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, and Tobias Asser. After him are Edward W. Morley, Franz Brentano, Luís I of Portugal, Émile Loubet, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Ernest Solvay. Among people deceased in 1893, Jan Matejko ranks 8. Before him are Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod, Josef Stefan, Patrice de MacMahon, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Jean-Martin Charcot. After him are Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Baron Alexander von Bach, Ernst Kummer, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, and Jules Ferry.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Matejko ranks 84 out of 1,694. Before him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), and Horst Köhler (1943). After him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Stefan Banach (1892), Anna Jagiellon (1523), and Tamara de Lempicka (1898).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Jan Matejko ranks 1. After him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Otto Mueller (1874), Moïse Kisling (1891), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), Olga Boznańska (1865), and Aleksander Orłowski (1777).

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