Maximilian (Maksymilian) Antoni Piotrowski (1813–1875) was a Polish painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kaliningrad.

Andrzej's wife Teresa née Baranowska and himself moved to the city a year before Maximilian's birth, relocating from the nearby village of Koronowo.

[2] After graduating from high school, Maximilian moved to Berlin at the age of 20 (1833) to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Schadow was a member of the Nazarene movement aspiring to revive spirituality in art, with a return to Quattrocento-like features, thus differentiating from the pseudo-classicism then in vogue in Europe.

During this period, Maximilian had a contract to work with a group on a monumental historical painting depicting an episode of the Anglo-Afghan War, commissioned by William Empton.

One can highlight from this period: The collapse of the Spring of Nations combined with the lack of opportunities for his artistic development in his homeland compelled him to return to Berlin.

However, he did not stay long, as in 1849, he moved to Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad), to be appointed as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (German: Preussische Akademie der Künste).

Piotrowski died on November 29, 1875, in Königsberg; his body was transferred to Bydgoszcz and buried inside the family crypt of the Staro Farny Cemetery in Grunwaldzka street.

[2] Active during the Biedermeier period,[6] Maximilian Piotrowski mastered these techniques:[2] His topics were not only referring to historical scenes, but he additionally represented genre painting, religious pictures or portraits.

In Poland, one can highlight the following paintings: Most of the painter's works are displayed in District Museum of Bydgoszcz, i.e. several dozens of artistic items.

From December 20, 1925, till January 25, 1926, an exhibition of Maximilian's works was set up in Bydgoszcz and in Toruń a year later, at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death.

[8] Until the ouset of the war, the museum carried out a campaign to collect Piotrowski's items: by 1939, over 100 oil paints, watercolors, tempera paintings and drawings were gathered from donations and purchases, such as:[7] Unfortunately, many of Piotrowski's works were destroyed during the last days of Bydgoszcz occupation, although the Nazi authorities ordered the entire collection to be evacuated to the countryside.

[7] After the war, the District Museum in Bydgoszcz received 50 works (3 paintings and 47 drawings) by Maximilian Piotrowski from the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning.

[7] On November 26, 1950, for the 75th anniversary of his death, on the initiative of the Society of the Lovers of the City of Bydgoszcz (Polish: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy), a commemorative plaque by Piotr Triebler has been placed on the wall of his family house at 22 Długa street.