Jerzy Kossak was a Polish realist painter specializing in military scenes; son of painter Wojciech Kossak

Wojciech Kossak

Wojciech Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of painters and writers...

 and grandson of painter Juliusz Kossak

Juliusz Kossak

Juliusz Fortunat Kossak was a Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses...

 — a third-generation artist from a well-known and sought after family of painters, writers and poets.

Jerzy Kossak was a prolific painter of mostly historic scenes featuring the famed Polish Uhlan

Uhlan

Uhlans were Polish light cavalry armed with lances, sabres and pistols. The title was later used by lancer regiments in the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armies....

s on horses, usually sold on the spot, but also used for barter at times of the postwar

World War II

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 economic slump, until his death before the end of Stalinism

Stalinism

Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...

 in Poland

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland refers to Poland between the two world wars; a period in Polish history in which Poland was restored as an independent state. Officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Commonwealth of Poland , the Polish state was...

. His paintings, along with those of his antecessors remain best-selling at Polish art auctions.

Jerzy Kossak was a brother: to poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, née Kossak , was a Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyrical poetry" of Poland's interwar period...

 and novelist Magdalena Samozwaniec

Magdalena Samozwaniec

Magdalena Samozwaniec née Kossak was a Polish writer. The Kossak family is known for many artists including her father Wojciech Kossak, her brother Jerzy and sister Maria.- Stories by Magdalena Samozwaniec :...

, as well as the father of: biologist Simona Kossak and painter Gloria Kossak

Gloria Kossak

Gloria Kossak , Polish painter and poet, was a daughter of painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of another renowned Polish painter, Wojciech Kossak, himself the son of Juliusz Kossak, the progenitor of the entire Kossak family of artists and writers, and precursor of a Polish school of...

 residing at the historic family manor called "Kossakówka", in metropolitan Kraków.

See also

• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
  Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
  Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded the wartime Polish organization Żegota, set up to assist Poland's Jews in escaping the Holocaust...
  
   (1889–1968), daughter of Tadeusz Kossak
  Tadeusz Kossak
  Tadeusz Kossak was a Polish activist, freedom fighter, and a plenipotent of a country estate in Górki Wielkie from 1922. In 1907 Kossak was arrested by the Imperial Russian authorities for protesting against the foreign occupation of Poland...
  
  , the twin brother of Jerzy's father
• Kossak family
  Kossak
  Kossak is the surname of the 4 generations of notable Polish painters, writers and poets, descending from the historical painter Juliusz Kossak. The family includes:* Progenitor, Juliusz Kossak , Polish painter from the partitions period...
  
  ; 4 generations of notable painters, writers and poets
• List of Poles