PAINTER

Jan Matejko

1838 - 1893

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Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan aˈlɔjzɨ maˈtɛjkɔ] ; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Matejko has received more than 619,584 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Jan Matejko is the 186th most popular painter (up from 226th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 117th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Painter.

Jan Matejko was a Polish painter and sculptor. He is most famous for his paintings of the history of Poland.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan Matejko ranks 186 out of 2,023. Before him are Fra Bartolomeo, Anton Raphael Mengs, Han van Meegeren, Anselm Kiefer, Johannes Itten, and Benozzo Gozzoli. After him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Domenichino, Hans Baldung, Sonia Delaunay, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Giulio Romano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Jan Matejko ranks 6. Before him are Georges Bizet, John Wilkes Booth, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, and Max Bruch. After him are Luís I of Portugal, Tobias Asser, Ernest Solvay, Franz Brentano, Émile Loubet, and Léon Gambetta. Among people deceased in 1893, Jan Matejko ranks 9. Before him are Charles Gounod, Jean-Martin Charcot, Patrice de MacMahon, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, and Rutherford B. Hayes. After him are Edwin Booth, Josef Stefan, Jules Ferry, Ernst Kummer, Baron Alexander von Bach, and John Tyndall.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Matejko ranks 103 out of 1,694. Before him are Stefan Banach (1892), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Dziga Vertov (1896), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), and Pola Negri (1897). After him are Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Hanna Reitsch (1912), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Jan Matejko ranks 2. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898). After him are Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Moïse Kisling (1891), Otto Mueller (1874), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Hans Bellmer (1902), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), and Józef Brandt (1841).

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