upKaczor-Batowski in 1907 Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski (1866–1946) was a Polish realist and

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painter. Born in Lwów (then ''Lemberg'' in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, now

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, Ukraine), in 1885 he graduated from the

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

-based

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. A student of Florian Cynk and

Władysław Łuszczkiewicz Władysław Łuszczkiewicz (September 3, 1828 – May 23, 1900) was a Polish historian and painter of the late Romantic era from Kraków, active in the period of the foreign partitions of Poland. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and ...

, he moved to

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and then

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, where he studied under the tutelage of

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between 1887 and 1889. He also spent a brief time in

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and

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before returning to his natal Lwów, where he spent the rest of his life. In the years 1903-1914 he ran his own painting school in Lviv. A fan of Henryk Sienkiewicz,

Juliusz Słowacki Juliusz Słowacki (; french: Jules Slowacki; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the " Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of m ...

and Jan Matejko, Kaczor-Batowski specialized in historicist paintings, usually related to Poland's martial history. Among the best known of his works is the ''Polish Thermopylae'' (

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) and '' Pułaski at Savannah''. The last painting is currently owned and permanently displayed at The Polish Museum in Chicago. He is also notable as the designer of the stuccos and frescoes for the Grand Theatre in Lwów (modern ''Theatre of Lviv''). In addition to painted landscapes, portraits and religious paintings, Batowski made a series of illustrations for ''

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'' by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Gallery

File:Widok Lwowa.jpg, A view of Lwów. File:Atak husarii.jpg, The hussar charge

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1866 births 1946 deaths Artists from Lviv 19th-century Polish painters 19th-century Polish male artists 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish male painters {{Poland-painter-stub