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Jan Matejko, Stańczyk, 1862, National Museum in Warsaw Portrait of the artist's four children from 1879, Lviv National Art Gallery During the January Uprising of 1863, in which he did not directly take part on account of his poor health, Matejko supported it financially, donating most of his savings to the cause, and personally transporting ...
Malczewski had already begun master classes with Jan Matejko in 1875 before embarking on the trip to France, and completed them in 1879 after his return from abroad. In spite of considerable stylistic differences between them, Malczewski was greatly influenced by Matejko's historical painting filled with neo-romantic metaphor and patriotic themes.
Jan Matejko conveyed the cheerfulness of Babin by placing a light-filled orchard in the background. The landscape could have been modelled after Matejko's own Manor House in Krzesławice. [1] The motif of play and banqueting in a serene natural environment derives from the literary genre of the pastoral, which was widely popular in Renaissance ...
The Constitution of 3 May 1791 [a] (Polish: Konstytucja 3 Maja 1791 roku) is an 1891 Romantic oil painting on canvas by the Polish artist Jan Matejko.It is a large piece, and one of Matejko's best known.
He was one of eleven children born to Fanya (née Tigerman) and Isaac Gottlieb. He was introduced to painting in Lemberg by Michał Godlewski. At fifteen, he enrolled at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy for three years. In 1873, he went to Kraków to study under Jan Matejko and became close friends with Jacek Malczewski.
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House on Floriańska Street in Kraków (circa 1898) Interior of the house (circa 1898) The Jan Matejko Society (Towarzystwo im. Jana Matejki) was an association active from 1895 to 1908, which aimed to acquire and transform Jan Matejko's birthplace and residence into a museum before transferring it to the Kraków municipality or a similar institution.
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