Franciszek Ksawery Lampi | |
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 Portrait of Lampi by Joseph Sonntag (1834) | |
| Born | 22 January 1782 Klagenfurt, Austria |
| Died | 22 July 1852(1852-07-22) (aged 70) |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| Known for | Painting,art education |
| Movement | Romanticism |
Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, also known asFranz Xaver Lampi (22 January 1782 – 22 July 1852),[1] was aPolish Romantic painter born in Austria of ethnic Italian background. He was associated with the aristocratic circle of the lateStanisław II Augustus, the last Polish king before the foreignpartitions of Poland.[2] Lampi settled inWarsaw around 1815 at the age of 33, and established himself as the leading landscape and portrait artist inCongress Poland soon afterNapoleon's defeat in Russia.
Lampi was the son of renowned Italian historical painterJohann Baptist von Lampi the Elder fromRomeno (b.1751) known as Jan Chrzciciel Lampi inPoland,[3] who was invited to Warsaw by King Stanisław II August in 1786 when Franz (Franciszek) was 4 years old (or between 1788 and 1791,[3] according to different source).
He was born inKlagenfurt, where his father worked on commissions for the Austrian court. He was the younger brother ofJohann Baptist von Lampi (b.1775), also a portrait painter in the Lampi family; and was initially taught painting by his father,[1] before entering theAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna in the studios ofHubert Maurer andHeinrich Füger.[4] When he was 15 years old, the Lampi family relocated to St. Petersburg in 1797 during the third andfinal partition of Poland, enticed by an extremely generous offer from theTsar.[5] Estranged from his father, and disinherited, Franciszek Lampi left St. Petersburg at the age of 32 after theNapoleonic Wars, and settled inWarsaw a year later in 1815.[6][7] The already well-established reputation of his father in Poland as well as his own Polish childhood helped him blend into society.[4]
He exhibited at WarsawSalons in 1828, 1838, 1841 and 1845; and opened a small private art school in 1841.[3]
Lampi painted mostly aristocratic portraits and specialized in the Romantic depictions of attractive women.[3] What's more, he produced fantastic landscapes and seascapes inspired by the new intellectual forces of theAge of Enlightenment and the philosophical evolution ofRomanticism in Poland. His art style was similar to the work of ItalianSalvator Rosa andClaude-Joseph Vernet of France.[8] He gave art classes in his studio, but also traveled. In 1817–1819 he was teaching inKraków. Among his most notable students wereWojciech Korneli Stattler andPiotr Michałowski.[6]
In 1823 he went toLublin on commission, in 1830 toVilnius. After theNovember Uprising against the Russian Empire he spent a few years inWrocław (Breslau) before returning to Warsaw in 1836.[3] In 1840 he visited Dresden, Berlin and Munich – known as Franz Xaver Ferdinand von Lampi in German.[7][9]
In 1850 Lampi returned to Warsaw where he died in 1852 at the age of 70,[9] said to have been a possible victim of thecholera outbreak.[7] His work can be found at the National Museum of Poland and its branches includingWarsaw,Kraków,Poznań[10] as well as in theMykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery (Kaunas,Lithuania).[citation needed]
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Skłócony z ojcem, w 1814 wyjechał na Węgry, skąd ok. 1815 przybył do Polski i zamieszkał w Warszawie.
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