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POLISH PAINTERS
JAN Alojzy MATEJKO(1838-1893)
In total he painted about 200 paintings. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings of
numerous battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish
kings.
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
Battle of GrunwaldRoyal jester
Conversation with God
Stanisław Ignacy
Witkiewicz(1885-1939)
He’s commonly known as „Witkacy” . He was a writer,
playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher. He painted mostly landscapes and
portraits. He worked in an avant-garde group of artist who created a new direction in art – formism. He
was a creator of the Zakopane style.
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
Creation of the world Self-portrait
Australian lanscape
Józef Marian
Chełmoński
1849-1914
He was a painter, who represented the trend in
art called "Polish Patriotic Painting". The works that he followed were landscapes and villages. His paintings express love of nature
and country people life.
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
The storks
Partriges on the snow
Thunderstorm
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
Indian summerMigration of Cranes
Jacek Malczewski
(1854-1929)
He was one of the most famous painters of Polish symbolism. He
painted portraits and folk life scenes. Malczewski's paintings
were abounding with sorrow and mystery, fantastic and unreal creatures: angels, chimeras,
fauns etc.
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
Melancholy
Polish Hamlet
Polonia
HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS
Don Kichot and Sancho Pansa
Christ in Emmaus
Stanisław Wyspiański
1869 – 1907
Polish painter, secessionist. He painted numerous portraits of women, children, self-portraits, impressionistic
landscapes of Krakow. He was excellent in pastels. He was also
famous as an illustrator of books and as the playwright, poet as well as interior and furniture designer. He
developed his skills designing stained-glass windows.
HIS MASTERPIECES
Motherhood
Sleeping Staś
Bend of the Vistula river
God the Father bringing the world out of
chaos
Nikifor1895-1968
He’s known as Nikifor Krynicki and Epifaniusz Drowniak. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures - on sheets of paper, pages of
notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. He became
famous as a primitivist painter.
HIS MASTERPIECES
Smoking chimneys
Railway station in Krynica
Tadeusz Makowski
1882 - 1932
He was a prominent Polish painter active in France for most of his life. Makowski started off as a landscape painter but then shifted
towards Post-Impressionism and Cubism. He met Pablo Picasso, who was his good
friend.
HIS MASTERPIECES
Poisoned Well
Flowers in front of a cottage
Landscape from Britanny
HIS MASTERPIECES
Julian Fałat1853 - 1929
He was one of the most prolific Polish painters
of watercolor and one of the country's foremost
landscape painters as well as one of the leading Polish
impressionists.
HIS MASTERPIECES
Old man praying
Elk
Winter landscape with a river
Zdzisław Beksiński
1929-2005
Polish painter, draftsman, sculptor, photographer and
artist who used computer graphics.
HIS MASTERPIECESDead Sea
Lodowy Tyn Morów
Bad Wierg
Jerzy Duda-Gracz
1941 - 2004
Polish painter, surrealist and symbolist. He was described as
"insightful satirist”. His painting has always aroused strong emotions.
Presenting the people with a grotesquely deformed bodies and using of symbols, he exposed the
human flaws - stupidity, intolerance, hypocrisy, arrogance, laziness, blind
fascination with money and American culture.
HIS MASTERPIECES
Ora et colabora Indian summer
Big emigration
Tadeusz Kantor1915 - 1990 He painted in a
surrealistic style. Kantor’s painting is characterized by abstractness and departure from all conventions in an
art.
HIS MASTERPIECES
Abstract Composition
HIS MASTERPIECES
Green Umbrella
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