About Antoni Reichenberg
Lived 1825 – 1903 (aged 77). Antoni Reichenberg was an Austrian painter and catholic priest.
Antoni Reichenberg (7 June 182523 January 1903) was a Polish priest, Jesuit, and artist. He took care of orphans and the poor in Ternopil.
Biography In 1848, he participated in the Hungarian Revolution.
Reichenberg studied painting in Budapest and the Munich Academy of Arts, graduating in 1862. During his studies, he was friends with Jan Matejko.
He studied theology in Munich and Przemyśl, where he was ordained a priest on 13 September 1868. On 7 December 1869, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Stara Wieś.
He died on 23 January 1903 in Ternopil. where the tombstone bears an inscription: "To the guardian of the poor, Antoni Reichenberg T. I., grateful citizens of Ternopil".
Works He was a talented artist. Among his works are the image "Our Lady of Sorrows" (kept in Stara Wieś) and a portrait of Alfred Potocki (until 1918 it hung in the hall of the Galician Sejm).
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Who was Antoni Reichenberg?
Polish priest, Jesuit, artist
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Antoni Reichenberg was born on 7 June 1825 in Gorlice.
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Antoni Reichenberg died on 23 January 1903 in Ternopil.
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Antoni Reichenberg was a painter and catholic priest.
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Antoni Reichenberg was Austrian.
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