Henryk Bonawentura Kazimierz Weyssenhoff (26 July 1859, Pakriaunys,

Kovno Governorate Kovno Governorate ( rus, Ковенская губеpния, r=Kovenskaya guberniya; lt, Kauno gubernija) or Governorate of Kaunas was a governorate ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was forme ...

- 23 July 1922,

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) was a Polish-Belarusian landscape painter, illustrator and sculptor of Baltic-German ancestry.

Biography

He was descended from an old family of the

Livonia Livonia ( liv, Līvõmō, et, Liivimaa, fi, Liivinmaa, German and Scandinavian languages: ', archaic German: ''Liefland'', nl, Lijfland, Latvian and lt, Livonija, pl, Inflanty, archaic English: ''Livland'', ''Liwlandia''; russian: Ли ...

n nobility. In 1863, his father was exiled to Siberia for his participation in the January Uprising. His mother followed with the family, as far as she could, and he grew up in the

Urals The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...

. His first lessons in art were given to him there by Lucjan Kraszewski (brother of the writer

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the ...

), who was also living in exile.Biography and appreciation
@ Pravdinsky. In 1874, his father was pardoned, but they were not allowed to return to their old home, so they settled in Warsaw, where he studied painting with

Wojciech Gerson Wojciech Gerson (; July 1, 1831 – February 25, 1901) was a leading Polish painter of the mid-19th century, and one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time ...

. His work there attracted the attention of

Henryk Siemiradzki Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Russian-born Polish painter based in Rome, best remembered for his monumental academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman w ...

who, in 1880, helped him gain admission to the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the T ...

in Saint Petersburg. He graduated in 1885, earning a silver medal and the official title of "Artist" for his canvas "Transport of the Wounded". In 1889, he spent some time in

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, improving his skills with Alfred Kowalski. In 1900, he won another silver medal at the Exposition Universelle. As a result, from 1903 to 1904 he lived in Paris, then settled on his parents' estate near

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, in what is now Belarus. During the

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, he was forced to return to Warsaw and remained there until his death. An avid hunter, many of his landscapes included animal life. In addition to his painting, he illustrated several works, notably two by his cousin, Józef Weyssenhoff; ''Erotyki'' (1911), a book of poetry, and ''Soból i Panna'' (1913),Brief biography
@ AgraArt. a novel that is loosely based on the manorial lifestyle of the Weyssenhoff family.

Selected paintings

File:Litewskie zacisze.jpg, Bears Playing
in Front of a House Henryk Weyssenhoff - Śnieg 1894.jpg, Snow File:Henryk Weyssenhoff - Przeczucie 1893.jpg, Premonition File:Лось на балоце.jpg, Moose in the Swamp

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weyssenhoff, Henryk 1859 births 1922 deaths People from Rokiškis District Municipality People from Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd Baltic-German people Polish painters Polish male painters Polish landscape painters Polish illustrators

Biography

Selected paintings

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