Michał Kulesza, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michał Kulesza

Polish-Lithuanian painter

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1799

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1863

Profession: painter

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

The Romantic painter Michal Kulesza (26 November 1799 – 6 November 1863) was among the first lithographers in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, ruled by Russia for almost all of his life.
His frequent theme, sites linked to the Grand Duchy's history, reflected the growing Lithuanian and Polish ethnic activism in the area.
He lived and worked in today's southern Lithuania, south-eastern Belarus, and north-eastern Poland, and traveled around in search of new subjects for his oil paintings and lithographs.
A leading landscape painter of his period, Kulesza created images that are now among the sparse visual records of the region in the first half of the 19th century.