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Jul 01, 1831 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 25 Feb 1901 (aged 69)
Polish painter
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About 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 professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and taught future luminaries of Polish neo-romanticism including Józef Chelmonski, Leon Wyczólkowski, Wladyslaw Podkowinski, Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa among others.
- He also wrote art-reviews and published a book of anatomy for the artists.
- A large number of his paintings were stolen by Nazi Germany in World War II, and never recovered.
