Wojciech Gerson

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Wojciech Gerson
Born	(1831-07-01)1 July 1831 Warsaw, Congress Poland
Died	25 February 1901(1901-02-25) (aged 69) Warsaw, Congress Poland
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1873) Professor by rank (1878)[1]
Alma mater	Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Imperial Academy of Arts[1]
Known for	Painting, art education
Movement	Romanticism

Wojciech Gerson (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛɣ ˈɡɛrsɔn]; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw,^[2] and taught future luminaries of Polish neo-romanticism including Józef Chełmoński, Leon Wyczółkowski, Władysław Podkowiński, Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa among others. He also wrote art-reviews and published a book of anatomy for the artists.^[3] A large number of his paintings were stolen by Nazi Germany in World War II, and never recovered.^[4]