Wojciech Gerson

1831–1901 · Romanticism

Wojciech Gerson was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and taught future luminaries of Polish neo-romanticism including Józef Chełmoński, Leon Wyczółkowski, Władysław Podkowiński, Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa among others. He also wrote art-reviews and published a book of anatomy for the artists. A large number of his paintings were stolen by Nazi Germany in World War II, and never recovered.

26 paintings

• Studies of hands
• Portrait of an old man (1857)
• Ruins of the Bobrowniki castle by the Vistula River (1856)
• Self-portrait (1875)
• Portrait of a young girl (1879)
• Portrait of Helena Jaworska née Rapacka (1883)
• Self-portrait (1885)
• Gardener and a Little Colonel (1855)
• Fair Weather in the Pieniny Mountains (1884)
• Twilight (1881)
• Wojciech Gerson-Oplakane apostolstwo (1866)
• Pejzaż (1853)
• Children of Highlanders (Oath of Edelweiss) (1867)
• The ghost of Barbara Radziwiłł (1886)
• Landless. Pomeranians driven out by Germans to Baltic islands (1888)
• Wiano królewny Aldony (1894)
• Dolina Bramki w Tatrach (1890)
• Ruins of Castle Tower in Ojców (1850)
• Ruins of the Trakai Castle (1855)
• Reception of the Jews (1874)
• The Assassination of Przemysł II in Rogoźno. (1881)
• Portrait of Irena Poświkówna-Solska. (1895)
• Rest. (1895)
• Female nude. (1896)
• Portrait of Jadwiga Strachocka née Szpet (1860–1933) (1882)
• Veit Stoss on his way to Nuremberg. (1882)