Krzysztof Lubieniecki or Christoffel Lubienietzky (1659–1729) was a
Polish
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Baroque
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painter and engraver active in Amsterdam during the
Dutch Golden Age
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.
Biography
Krzysztof Lubieniecki was born in Stettin (today:
Szczecin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...
),
Pommerania
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. His brother
Teodor Lubieniecki
Teodor Bogdan Lubieniecki (c. 1654, Czarkowy – 1718, Nowy Korczyn) was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver.
Biography
Teodor and his brother Krzysztof Lubieniecki hailed from an Arian family. They learned to paint from Juriaan Stur in Ha ...
was also a painter and engraver. They learned to paint from the landscape and seascape painter
Juriaan Stur in
Hamburg. In 1667 they travelled to Amsterdam, where Krzysztof apprenticed with
Adriaen Backer
Adriaen Backer (ca 1635, Amsterdam — buried 23 May 1684, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, active in Amsterdam and Haarlem.
Biography
Backer was the son of the Mennonite Tjerk Adriaensz and the Remonstrant Marritje Dootsho ...
, and Teodor with
Gerard de Lairesse. In 1682, Teodor moved to
Hannover before eventually moving to Poland in 1706, where he died.
Krzysztof remained in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits and
genre pieces. He also collaborated on prints for
Jacobus Houbraken
Jacobus Houbraken (25 December 1698 – 14 November 1780) was a Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), whom he assisted in producing a published record of the lives of artists from the Dutch Go ...
, , and
Johannes Brandt
Johannes Brandt (1884–1955) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director.
Selected filmography
Screenwriter
* ''Diamonds'' (1920)
* '' The Three Dances of Mary Wilford'' (1920)
* '' The Call of Destiny'' (1922)
* '' Felicitas Grolandin'' (1 ...
(son of
Gerard Brandt). He died in
Amsterdam.
In 1944 a Lubieniecki painting ''Portrait of a young man'' was looted from the
National Museum of Warsaw
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by the Nazis during the
Warsaw Uprising. It was in turn seized by an American serviceman and not returned to Polish authorities before 2015.
National Museum of Warsaw
The National Museum in Warsaw ( pl, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), popularly abbreviated as MNW, is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art (Eg ...
by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising.
References
prints by C. Lubnietzki in Amsterdam ArchivesChristoffel Lubienitzkiin the
RKD
* Artnet.com,
Christoffel Lubieniecki'
External links
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1659 births
1729 deaths
17th-century engravers
18th-century engravers
Polish engravers
17th-century Polish painters
Polish male painters
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters
18th-century male artists
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Artists from Szczecin
Polish emigrants to the Netherlands