Adam Lerue

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Powizytkowski church, the Capuchin church and the monument of the Union of Lublin in Lublin. The lithography of Adam Lerue from about 1860.

Adam Lerue (1825? Dubienka - 1863 Częstochowa) - painter, painter and lithograph of French origin.

Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he was a student of Jan Feliks Piwarski. In 1851 he obtained a diploma there. He was one of the founders of the Warsaw Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. Together with Wojciech Gerson he published in 1852 the Album of the Views of Warsaw. From 1850 to 1855 he took part as a draftsman in the delegation to describe the monuments of antiquity in the Kingdom of Poland, which was established for the purpose of inventories of monuments. At that time, wandering through the Płock, Lubelskie and Augustów provinces, he made 36 watercolor views of the monuments. In the years 1857-1860 he published the Lublin Album, which contained lithographs of his drawings with texts by Kazimierz Stronczyński and Hipolit Skimborowicz. In September 1862, he moved to Czestochowa where he was appointed a teacher of drawing and calligraphy at the State Special School.

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