Aleksander Orlowski

Aleksander Orlowski (1777–1832) was a Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.

Orlowski was born in 1777 in Warsaw to a humble tavern-keeper. Since early childhood he became known as a prodigy and soon Izabela Czartoryska financed his first classes of painting with the notable artist Jan Piotr Norblin. In 1793 Orlowski joined the Polish Army and fought in the Kosciuszko Uprising against Imperial Russia and Prussia, but was wounded and returned to Warsaw for further studies, financed by Prince Józef Poniatowski. He studied with many notable painters of the epoch, among them Norblin, Marcello Bacciarelli and Wincenty Lesserowicz. After the Partitions of Poland in 1802 he moved to Russia, where he became one of the pioneers of litography.Among his works are countless sketches of everyday life in Poland and Russia, as well as scenes of Kosciuszko Uprising and other Polish wars.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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