Jacek Malczewski- National Museum

Jacek Malczewski polish artist exhibition in National Museum in Warsaw

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Biography Jan Malczewski(1854-1929)- polish artist, representative of symbolism XIX/XX. He is called to be one of the fathers of polish symbolism. In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of the natural environment.

Malczewski was born in Radom, part of Congress Poland controlled then by the Russian Empire. During his childhood and early teen years he was greatly influenced by his father Julian, a Polish patriot and social activist who introduced him to the world of Romantic literature inspired by the November Uprising(1830-31). Similarly, the beauty of Polish landscape and folklore had been awakened in him by Feliks Karczewski, his uncle and long-time guardian who invited future novelist Adolf Dygasinski to his estate, for Jacek’s cognitive benefit. He died in Cracow on October 8,1929.

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Symbolism -a reaction to materialist Positivism-was born in France around 1885, initially as a tendency in literature. It soon transformed into an ideological stance,present also in art, the goal of which was to express the most mysterious,internal and profound components of the nature of things and the world.

Jacek Malczewski’s art style- exposition- Krzyczac Polska- Shouting Poland!

Polish Hamlet,1903

Polonia II,1918

Nike of the Legions,1916

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The exhibition showns paintings of Jacek Malczewski, which was created during or about the time when Poland got back her independence again. Main purpose is to show artist, who were active during 1914-1920.

Portrait of Kazimierz Pochwalski,1914-1915

Portrait of Brigadier Jรณzef Pilsudski,1916

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Portrait of Waclaw Karczewski,1909

Jacek Malczewski- all year exhibition

In turn the work of Jacek Malczewski, which originates from the dreams of national independence on the one hand, while on the other hand obsessively revolving around the problems of death, human fate, eroticism, and the role of art and the artist, almost continuously addresses significant existential problems. Feeling as an heir to the Polish tradition of knights and nobility, Malczewski often portrayed himself as a knight at the service of art. His studies at the studio of Jan Matejko instilled in him belief in the need to comment the topic of insurgent martyrdom-and the to tap into art in order to shape its future. From the first images of Polish exiles to Siberia, Malczewski derived inspiration from the poetry of Polish Romanticists, particularly ,,Anhell’’ by Juliusz Slowacki(Death of Ellenai,1906-1907).

Finis Poloniae,1906

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The death of Ellenai,1906-1907

Power of a Spring, 1914

Music- a tryptych,1906

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Paintings

Art in the village of Gentry,1896

The death of the Artist,1909

Saint Agnes,1920-1921

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Pictures from exibitions from National Museum in Warsaw al. Jerozolimskie 3 00-495 Warszawa Author- Justyna Wasilewska

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