Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski - Buy or sell works
(1849 in Suwałki - 1915 in München)
Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski is considered one of the foremost Polish painters of the nineteenth century. In 1849, he was born in a part of Poland that fell under the administration of Tsarist Russia at the time. His training as an artist led him from Warsaw via Dresden and Prague to Munich, where he took up his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1873. Through his Polish teacher, Józef Brandt, he became a member of the Munich Polish Circle and subsequently one of the leading exponents of the Munich School, which around the middle of the nineteenth century focused primarily on landscape and portraiture. The Munich School was supported by King Ludwig I of Bavaria and, upon the construction of the Neue Pinakothek, even received its own exhibition space. From 1890 on, Wierusz-Kowalski worked as a professor at the Munich Academy.