Alfred Schouppé
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| birth_name = Alfred Schouppé
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1812|12|23}}
| birth_place = Grabownica Starzeńska, Poland
| death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1899|4|7}}
| death_place = Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
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| nationality = 18px Polish
| field = Painting
| training = Accademia di San Luca in Rome
| movement = Idealism
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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.{{cite web|title=Schouppé Alfred - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy|url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Schouppe-Alfred;3973189.html|website=PWN|accessdate=4 September 2016}}
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.{{cite web|title=Schouppé Alfred|url=http://z-ne.pl/t,haslo,4284,schouppe_alfred.html|website=z-ne.pl|accessdate=4 September 2016}} His Tatra landscape paintings are characterised with idealism.{{cite web|title=Alfred Schouppe|url=http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Schouppe/Index.htm|website=www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl|accessdate=4 September 2016}} He also painted religious paintings and had been illustrating with Juliusz Kossak.{{cite web|title=Schouppé, Alfred (1812-1899), Maler|url=http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_S/Schouppe_Alfred_1812_1899.xml|website=Biographien|accessdate=4 September 2016}}{{cite web|title=Alfred Schouppé (1812-1899) Paintings Collection|url=http://www.geocodedart.com/collection.php?artistid=325|website=Geocodedart|accessdate=4 September 2016}}
Selected paintings
File:Schouppe-Widok Tatr.jpg|View of the Tatras
(1849)
File:Schouppe-Kontrabandziści.jpg|Smugglers
(1870)
File:Widok Iłzy by Alfred Schouppé.jpg|View of Iłza
(1880)
References
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External links
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Category:19th-century Polish painters