Jacek Malczewski .........(1)
(Radom July 15, 1854 - October 8, 1929 Cracow)


Pensive Christ Portrait of Kazimierz Bartoszewicz Pythia

"The Pensive Christ", prior to 1900, oil on canvas, 73 x 124.5 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Portrait of Kazimierz Bartoszewicz", 1905, pencil on paper, 10.5 x 17 cm, Museum of Art, Lodz
"The Pythia", 1917, oil on cardboard, 101.5 x 72 cm, National Museum, Kielce

Rural Landscape with a Fence Spring Landscape Landscape with a Church

"Rural Landscape with a Fence", c. 1900, oil on cardboard, 24 x 35.5 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Spring Landscape", c. 1905, oil on canvas, 31 x 26 cm, National Museum, Cracow
"Landscape with a Church", sketch, 1901, oil on cardboard, 32.5 x 22 cm, National Museum, Kielce

Polonia (I) Death of Ellenai In the Tatra Mountains

"Polonia (I)", 1918, oil on cardboard, 102.5 x 73 cm, National Museum, Kielce
"Death of Ellenai", 1906-07, oil on canvas, 145 x 116 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"In the Tatra Mountains", c. 1900, oil on panel, 20.7 x 37 cm, private collection

Jacek Malczewski made his only statement in painting; his immensely rich oeuvre remains ever intriguing and artistically uneven. The first stage was the so-called Siberian cycle, illustrating the torment of Polish deportees, portrayed naturalistically or filtered through the mystical poetry of Slowacki. During the Young Poland period, Malczewski created his own unique symbolic vocabulary in which corporeal and robust figures of chimeras, fauns, angels, and water sprites appear both in allegorical portraits, innumerable costume-clad self-portraits, landscapes, genre and religious scenes and, finally, in compositions which do not correspond to any thematic conventions. The art of Malczewski is dominated distinctly by two motifs, recurring and assorted painterly embodiments: the vocation of art and the artist, and death, under the antique form of Thanatos. The Malczewski oeuvre is the most vivid example of an intermingling of folk motifs and an anti-classical, Dionysian vision of antiquity, typical for Polish modernism; the artist achieved a peculiar polonisation of ancient mythology, not only by placing chimeras and fauns in a Polish landscape but also within an historical-national context, which ultimately proved to be regarded as the most important by this pupil of Matejko. [*]

Artist’s paintings in: malarze.com

Artist biography at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Malczewski

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