Artist Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski is one of the greatest and most acclaimed artists in the
history of Polish art. At the beginning of the nineties at the end of the
last Century, his paintings introduced the Symbolism movement into the
"MÅ‚oda Polska" (Young Poland) school of painting, stimulating the rebirth
of the Romantic tradition. Malczewski's father, Julian, had a major
influence on shaping his son's worldview and personality. Julian
Malczewski instilled into his son the ideas of patriotism and national
messianism expressed most fully in Polish literature of the Romantic
period. The strong sense of being Polish, sensitivity to the beauty of his
country's landscape and a knowledge of national folk art were established
during Malczewski's stay at the residence of his uncle, Feliks Karczewski
in Wielgiem (1867-1871), where he was tutored by Adolf Dygasiński, a
future writer and publicist. The artist's imagination circled around a few
questions which he kept posing from different angles, exploring different
aspects of the same
matter; a matter which was as elusive as it was symbolic.
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