Aleksander Lesser

Poland · 1814–1884

Aleksander Lesser was a Polish painter, illustrator, sketch artist, art critic, and amateur researcher of antiquities. Lesser was Jewish, and became one of the first artists to depict scenes from modern Jewish history in Poland. He specialized in Polish historical and contemporary themes, and he was known and respected in artistic and scholarly circles. He was a member of Kraków's Academy of Learning and co-founder of Warsaw's Zachęta, the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts. == Early life == Aleksander Lesser was born in Warsaw in 1814 to Levy Lesser (1791, 1870), a well-known trader and banker, and Róża Loewenstein (1790, 1840).

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