Young Poland

The name for Polish art and literature from about 1890 to 1918, when Poland was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria and artists, centred on Kraków, sought a national spirit through modern art. Painters drew on Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Impressionism: Jacek Malczewski filled his pictures with chimeras, angels and melancholy self-portraits about Polish fate; Stanisław Wyspiański made pastels of children and flowers and designed stained glass; Józef Mehoffer, Olga Boznańska with her hushed portraits, Leon Wyczółkowski, Julian Fałat and Jan Stanisławski with his small landscapes all worked in this time.

How to tell it apart: Symbolist mood and Art Nouveau line with Polish subjects: national myths, the Tatra mountains, the Vistula, the countryside and melancholy figures.

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Artists

Stanisław Wyspiański · Jacek Malczewski · Józef Mehoffer · Olga Boznańska · Władysław Podkowiński · Leon Wyczółkowski · Teodor Axentowicz · Julian Fałat · Wojciech Weiss · Ferdynand Ruszczyc · Józef Pankiewicz · Jan Stanisławski · Kazimierz Sichulski · Witold Wojtkiewicz · Konrad Krzyżanowski

Best-known works

“Frenzy of Exultations” — Władysław Podkowiński, 1893
“Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski” — Jacek Malczewski, 1903
“Girl with chrysanthemums” — Olga Boznańska, 1894
“Vicious circle” — Jacek Malczewski, 1897
“Springtime” — Wojciech Weiss, 1898
“Melancholia” — Jacek Malczewski, 1894
“Reality” — Jacek Malczewski, 1908
“Sleeping Staś” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1902
“Portrait of the artist and his wife” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904
“Death.” — Jacek Malczewski, 1902
“View of the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904
“Christmas Eve in Siberia” — Jacek Malczewski, 1892
“View of Cracow” — Julian Fałat, 1896
“Polonia” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1894
“Melancholic” — Wojciech Weiss, 1898
“Stańczyk (Puppet Show; Puppets)” — Leon Wyczółkowski, 1898
“Self-Portrait from the Month Before Dying” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1907
“Little Helen with a Vase” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1902
“Zatruta studnia” — Jacek Malczewski, 1906
“Planty Park with a view of Wawel Castle” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1894
“The Demon” — Wojciech Weiss, 1904
“Portrait of a Boy (Józio Feldman)” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1905
“A Painter's Apprentice” — Jacek Malczewski, 1890
“Study of a girl (bust in a blue hat)” — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895
“Red Umbrella” — Józef Mehoffer, 1917
“Young Poland” — Jacek Malczewski, 1917
“Before the Hunt in Rytwiany” — Julian Fałat, 1900
“Flower market in front of the Madeleine church in Paris” — Józef Pankiewicz, 1890
“Children in the garden.” — Władysław Podkowiński, 1892
“In the cloud” — Jacek Malczewski, 1894