Selected dates:

November 26th, 1799

Born in Vilna (Russian Empire, now Vilnius, Lithuania).

He studied at the Cistercian elementary school in Traskuny, studied drawing at the Vilna gymnasium with Jan Damel.

1821

He entered the Vilna University, studied at the Vilna Art School at the university with Jan Rustem.

1823

He was arrested for participating in a secret student society of Filarets.

1824

Was re-arrested. Released in the same year on bail, the artist was forced to leave for the estate of the princes Drutsky-Lyubetsky Lunino, Pinsk district, Minsk province, where he taught princely children to draw.

1829

Received the title of Doctor of Philosophy of Arts.

1840s

The artist conceives a series of lithographs, which he is going to publish in the form of albums. The series was supposed to consist of several dozen graphic sheets depicting the most remarkable places in Belarus, Lithuania and Volyn. It was possible to publish only one, the first notebook of the album (1850) in a Parisian printing house. It includes six lithographs.

1839

He lived in Grodno, where he taught at a private school.

1844

He moved to work at an institute in Bialystok.

1863

He died in Bialystok (Russian Empire, now Poland).