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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1711465).jpg "Portrait of Feliks Konopka (1888-1982) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1905 by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Stanisław Bryniarski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Wacław Karczewski 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 "Idyll by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1464479).jpg "Portrait of Stanisław Tondos, c.1902 by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1717063).jpg "Behind the Angel, right part of the triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Scene from \"Balladyna\" by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Christmas Eve in Siberia, 1892 by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Adoration of the Madonna, Central Part of the Triptych “Go to the Streams” by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Poisoned Well, Sketch by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Return to the Family Home by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Satyr and a Model by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait in Armour by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Spring Landscape from the Countryside by Jacek Malczewski")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1717558).jpg "On the Way (Siberian Exiles) by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Allegorical Figures, 1913 by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Garden of the Carmelite Church, Cracow by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Angel and Shepherd Boy by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Return to the Homeland by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Landscape from Nowo-Sielica by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Tadeusz BĹ‚otnicki by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Pensive Woman - Portrait of Sister Helena Karczewska by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Thanatos by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait in Armour with Violins by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of August Sokołowski, Historian by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "On the Veranda by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Michał Wywiórski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Landscape by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Clearing in the Forest by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Caresses of a Faun - Obverse by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "View of KrakĂłw from Zwierzyniec by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Christ in Emmaus by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Christ with Pilate by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Tadeusz BĹ‚otnicki with Medusa by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Two Heads of Old Men by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jan Kasprowicz by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Chimaera by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Artist and the Muses by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Introduction by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Praying Man by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Old Man at the Well 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 "The Death of the Artist by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Spring by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Polish Hamlet - Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Saint Agnes by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Erazm BarÄ…cz by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Adolf Dygasiński with Birds by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Erazm Baracz by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Exile - Left Part of the Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Childhood - Jacek by the Pond in Wielgie by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "On One String - Self-Portrait by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Praying Girl by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sister Helena in the Garden by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Two Girls with a Jug by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Vicious Circle by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Julia, the Artist")
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.jpg "Portrait of Count Antoni Wodzicki by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Sketch of a Female Figure at a Window by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Polish Hamlet - Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "My Life - Central Part of the Triptych by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of Adolf Dygasiński by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Eloe by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Angel with Tobias by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Death of Ellenai by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "The Last Drink by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Interior of the Salon in Lusławice by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Spring by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Painter Antoni Zembaczyński by Jacek Malczewski")
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.jpg "Melancholia by Jacek Malczewski")
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