The Polish painter Jacek Malczewski was born on 15 July 1854. He grew up in a poor farming family, where he was first taught by his parents. At the age of 17 he went to Cracow, where he attended grammar school. His works are classified as Symbolism and Modernism. Malczewski played a particularly important role in the field of ornamental art, which was very widespread in Poland at the time. His works are characterized by the connection of symbols with everyday reality. Malczewski intensively dealt with the political debates of his time and incorporated them into his art. Malczewski was discovered by the director and history painter Jan Mateiko during a visit as a guest student at the Cracow School of Art. Mateiko offered the young Malczewski a place at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Malczewski began with the genre of romanticism. Many works from this period are realistic history paintings and rural genre paintings. These pictures stand out due to their dark colouring. Malczewski was influenced by Arthur Grottgers with regard to these works. He then turned to symbolism, but retained the historical theme. The relationship between art and artist is at the forefront of his work. But Malczewski was also intensely preoccupied with the human being as such and with the milestones of human life, such as birth, old age and death. For about 50 years he worked on cycles and picture series in which he mixed his own symbols with traditional ones to create new meanings.
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Malczewski's Christian upbringing had a strong impact on his personality and thus on his artistic work. That is why he found his inspiration above all in ancient and Christian iconography. His immense imagination is particularly evident in his portraits. By mixing a world of fantasy and symbols with reality, he creates an ambivalence that distinguishes his originality. Malczewski represents a large number of self-portraits. In these portraits he shows himself with changing clothes or headgear. Among other things, he portrays himself as a knight, a fool or as Christ. Like his work in itself, Malczewski seems to have several faces. He died in Krakow on 8 October 1929.
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.jpg "At the Crane by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Rowan Tree, Right Part of the Triptych \"Go to the Streams\" by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1740467).jpg "Behind the Angel (left part of the triptych) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Julia, the Artist")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Actress Helena Sulima by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1732902).jpg "Portrait of Fr. Henryk Radomiński (1857-1933) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Zofia Atteslander by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1744065).jpg "On the Prisoner Transport (Prisoners) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Julia, the Artist")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1711465).jpg "Portrait of Feliks Konopka (1888-1982) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Landscape Motif from Rozdół by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Landscape with Salwator by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait of the Artist with a Palette by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of a man by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Interior of the Salon in Lusławice by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Scene from \"Balladyna\" by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Cousin, Maria Szymanowska by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Dziewanna by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "View of Kraków from Zwierzyniec by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Angel, I Will Follow You by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1734160).jpg "Portrait Study (the Artist")
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.jpg "Study of a Girl by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1717558).jpg "On the Way (Siberian Exiles) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Moses by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Painter Ichnowski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Clearing in the Forest by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1713785).jpg "Reconciliation (Symbolic scene from the uprising of 1863) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "My Models by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "View from the Veranda in Lusławice by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Death by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1734851).jpg "Boy in the Garden, Sketch (Rafał, the Artist")
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.jpg "Idyll by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Derwid by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "On the Hill of the Norbertine Nuns")
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.jpg "The Artist")
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.jpg "Woman at a Table, Sketch by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "On the Veranda by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Head of a Man by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1752265).jpg "Washing of the Feet (Siberian Scene) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Christmas Eve in Siberia, 1892 by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Adolf Dygasiński by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Rural Girls by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mieczysław Gąsecki by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Caresses of a Faun - Obverse by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Palette by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "End of the Century - 31 December 1899, Landscape with a Coffin by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Mowers by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Sketch of a Female Figure at a Window by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Music - Central Part of a Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Exile - Left Part of the Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Insurgent by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Stanisław Bryniarski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Old Man at the Well by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Music - Left Wing of the Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Interior with the Artist")
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.jpg "The Handing Over of the Palette by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Painter Stanisław Dębicki by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Music - Right Part of the Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Wacław Karczewski by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1712861).jpg "Sunday in the Mine (Rest in the Mine) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Funeral of a Painter")
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.jpg "Young Poland by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Female Model by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Allegorical Figures, 1913 by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Melancholia by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Leon Wyczółkowski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "My Life - right part of the triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Thanatos by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Praying Man by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Brigadier Józef Piłsudski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-portrait by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Christ in Emmaus by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Tobias with the Angel by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Shepherd and Harpy by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Two Heads of Old Men by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Exiles by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of J. Armółowicz by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "My Life - Left Part of the Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Saint Agnes by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Władysław Reymont by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Little Painter by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Exile - right part of the triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maria Balowa by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1728115).jpg "In Spring (In Autumn) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Michał Wywiórski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Homage to Art and the Muse by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Landscape with Rowan, Left Part of the Triptych “Go to the Streams” by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Adolf Dygasiński by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait against the Background of a Polish Road by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Two Girls with a Jug by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Alfred Biesiadecki by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait in Armour with Violins by Jacek Malczewski")
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