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Jacek Malczewski Museum

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Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Jacek Malczewski Museum
Phone:
+48 48 362 43 29

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4pm
Monday10am - 3pm
Tuesday9am - 3pm
Wednesday9am - 3pm
Thursday9am - 3pm
Friday10am - 5pm
SaturdayClosed


Jacek Malczewski is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions. He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism. In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of the natural environment.Malczewski was born in Radom, part of Congress Poland controlled then by the Russian Empire. During his childhood and early teen years he was greatly influenced by his father Julian, a Polish patriot and social activist who introduced him to the world of Romantic literature inspired by the November Uprising. On his mother's side, he was related to the Szymanowski family whom they often visited on their country estate in Cygów. Similarly, the beauty of Polish landscape and folklore had been awakened in him by Feliks Karczewski, his uncle and long-time guardian who invited future novelist Adolf Dygasiński to his estate, for Jacek's cognitive benefit.
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