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]
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]