Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski was a Polish painter, representative of the Munich School, elder brother of Aleksander Gierymski. He became famous as a co-founder of the 19th century Polish realistic landscape painting. As a young man he studied at the Warsaw Drawing Class. In 1867, he received a government scholarship which enabled him to travel to Munich and enter the Academy of Fine Arts. He created battle and genre scenes, hunting scenes from the 18th century maintained in Rococo style, episodes from the January Uprising and landscapes from Mazovia and Podlasie. He died very young, only 28 years old. His paintings can be found in the most important museum collections in Poland: in the National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan.