The Great Painters

Jacek Malczewski

- one of the most sovereign artists

Jacek Malczewski

Jacek Malczewski, self-portrait (1925), Wikipedia

Jacek Malczewski

(1854-1929)

His art is a real "explosive mixture" - it combines eroticism with mysticism, folklore with antiquity, lyrical reverie with brutal sensuality and pathos with ironic mockery. For years it has evoked extreme emotions, but leaves no one indifferent. His crazy, swinging imagination has created an incredibly expressive world.

THE FATHER OF POLISH SYMBOLISM

CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGE

MODERN ARTIST

FOLKLORE AND ROMANTICISM

COLORFUL NOVELTY

Jacek Malczewski

1854

(15 July) Jacek Malczewski, son of Julian and Maria of Korwin Szymanowski, was born in Radom.

1867-1871

he stayed in Wielgie in the estate of his uncle Feliks Karczewski, where his teacher was a January insurgent, naturalist and writer Adolf Dygasiński (1839-1902)

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1873

Jan Matejko (1838-1893) notices in Jacek Malczewski's "an impaired talent for painting" and personally asks his father to let his son leave the junior high school and devote himself exclusively to studies in an art school. This is what happened - Jacek Malczewski left the gymnasium and started studying at the Cracow School of Fine Arts.

1876-1877

he went to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

1879

as a result of the conflict with Jan Matejko left the School of Fine Arts

1884

After his father's death in January, Jacek Malczewski experiences dramatic moments. From then on, the motif of death appears in his paintings and constantly returns

1885-1886

study stay in Munich

1887

He married Maria Gralewska, daughter of a Krakow pharmacist. They lived together in the Gralewskis' tenement house on Szczepańska Street in Krakow.

1888

He married Maria Gralewska, daughter of a Krakow pharmacist. They lived together in the Gralewskis' tenement house on Szczepańska Street in Krakow.

1890

he started working on the painting "Melancholy", which initiated a symbolic breakthrough in his work

1892

he reconciled with Jan Matejko, who visited him in his studio on Łobzowska Street in Kraków

Jacek Malczewski

 

Hamlet of Poland - Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski (1903). National Museum in Warsaw, Wikipedia

1893

second stay in Munich

1897

Jacek Malczewski became one of the founding members of the "Krakow Art Nouveau", the "Sztuka" Society of Polish Artists. He was a well-known and popular person, even a puppet appeared in the "Green Balloon" cabaret - Jacek Symbolewski

1898

the artist's mother died, which the painter deeply experienced

1899

He settled in Zwierzyniec in the Villa "Under the Mother of God".

1912

He was elected rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and held this function until the outbreak of World War I. His opposition to the obligation to wear the Austrian representative uniform, which was for him the uniform of the invader, went down in history

1916

Jacek Malczewski returned to Krakow (he spent the beginning of the war in Vienna) and settled at 8 Krupnicza Street, took up a job at the Academy and painted paintings inspired by war events.

1921

received the order Polonia Restitua IV class

1924

The 70th birthday of the painter and the 50th anniversary of Malczewski's creative work is officially celebrated. Jubilee exhibitions are held in Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, Lviv.