Alfred Schouppé Explained

Alfred Schouppé
Birth Name:Alfred Schouppé
Birth Date:1812 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Grabownica Starzeńska, Poland
Death Place:Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
Nationality: Polish
Field:Painting
Training:Accademia di San Luca in Rome
Movement:Idealism

Alfred Schouppé (born December 13, 1812, in Grabownica Starzeńska, died April 7, 1899, in Krynica-Zdrój) was a Polish painter, and one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw.[1]

Biography

Studied in Kraków, where he was a student of Jan Nepomucen Głowacki and Józef Richter in Warsaw. In 1837, by gaining a scholarship Schouppé began studying at the Accademia di San Luca, returning to Warsaw in 1840. He took part in a number of foreign travels, and after going into retirement in 1897 he moved out of Warsaw. Nearly every year he visited the Tatra Mountains.[2] His Tatra landscape paintings are characterised with idealism.[3] He also painted religious paintings and had been illustrating with Juliusz Kossak.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Schouppé Alfred - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy. PWN. 4 September 2016.
  2. Web site: Schouppé Alfred. z-ne.pl. 4 September 2016.
  3. Web site: Alfred Schouppe. www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl. 4 September 2016.
  4. Web site: Schouppé, Alfred (1812-1899), Maler. Biographien. 4 September 2016.
  5. Web site: Alfred Schouppé (1812-1899) Paintings Collection. Geocodedart. 4 September 2016.