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4 unusual facts about Wojciech Stattler


Aleksander Kotsis

In 1850, he attended the Kraków College of Fine Arts, where he studied under Wojciech Stattler.

Wojciech Stattler

In 1818–27 he went to Italy, and continued his art studies at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome under Andrea Pozzi and privately with Vincenzo Camuccini and Bertel Thorvaldsen; as well as at the Academy of Vienna since 1822 under Antonio Canova.

His most famous pupil was Poland's nominal painter Jan Matejko.

In 1830 he was in Puławy, where he made preparatory sketches for a portrait of Prince Adam Czartoryski.



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