Franciszek Ksawery Lampi

Franciszek Ksawery Lampi studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Training under Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, Heinrich Füger and Hubert Maurer is recorded. Piotr Michałowski and Wojciech Stattler are recorded as having studied under Franciszek Ksawery Lampi. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait, landscape, mythological and religious. Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder is recorded as an influence. Residence is recorded at Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and Vienna. Work by Franciszek Ksawery Lampi is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Poznań, National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Kraków, Łazienki Palace and National Museum in Wrocław.

• Name — Franciszek Ksawery Lampi • Born — 22 January 1782 • Birthplace — Klagenfurt, Austria • Died — 22 July 1852 • Place of death — Warsaw, Poland • Known for — Painting, art education • Training — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna • Movement — Romanticism

Lampi was the son of renowned Italian historical painter Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder from Romeno (b.1751) known as Jan Chrzciciel Lampi in Poland, who was invited to Warsaw by King Stanisław II August in 1786 when Franz (Franciszek) was 4 years old (or between 1788 and 1791, according to different source). He was born in Klagenfurt, where his father worked on commissions for the Austrian court. He was the younger brother of Johann Baptist von Lampi (b.1775), also a portrait painter in the Lampi family; and was initially taught painting by his father, before entering the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the studios of Hubert Maurer and Heinrich Füger. When he was 15 years old, the Lampi family relocated to St. Petersburg in 1797 during the third and final partition of Poland, enticed by an extremely generous offer from the Tsar. Estranged from his father, and disinherited, Franciszek Lampi left St. Petersburg at the age of 32 after the Napoleonic Wars, and settled in Warsaw a year later in 1815. The already well-established reputation of his father in Poland as well as his own Polish childhood helped him blend into society.

He exhibited at Warsaw Salons in 1828, 1838, 1841 and 1845; and opened a small private art school in 1841. Lampi painted mostly aristocratic portraits and specialized in the Romantic depictions of attractive women. What's more, he produced fantastic landscapes and seascapes inspired by the new intellectual forces of the Age of Enlightenment and the philosophical evolution of Romanticism in Poland. His art style was similar to the work of Italian Salvator Rosa and Claude-Joseph Vernet of France. He gave art classes in his studio, but also traveled. In 1817–1819 he was teaching in Kraków. Among his most notable students were Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Piotr Michałowski. In 1823 he went to Lublin on commission, in 1830 to Vilnius. After the November Uprising against the Russian Empire he spent a few years in Wrocław (Breslau) before returning to Warsaw in 1836. In 1840 he visited Dresden, Berlin and Munich – known as Franz Xaver Ferdinand von Lampi in German. In 1850 Lampi returned to Warsaw where he died in 1852 at the age of 70, said to have been a possible victim of the cholera outbreak. His work can be found at the National Museum of Poland and its branches including Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań as well as in the Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania).

The authorities additionally record the headings Franciszek Xawery Lampi and Franz Xaver Lampi. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder and Anna Maria Franchi.

Franciszek Ksawery Lampi worked in painting. His work is associated with Romanticism. He worked at Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Vienna and Warsaw.