1. POLISH PAINTERS

2. JAN Alojzy MATEJKO (1838-1893) In total he painted about 200 paintings. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings of numerous battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings.

3. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS Battle of Grunwald Royal jester Conversation with God

4. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939) He’s commonly known as „Witkacy”. He was a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher. He painted mostly landscapes and portraits. He worked in an avant- garde group of artist who created a new direction in art – formism. He was a creator of the Zakopane style.

5. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS Creation of the world Self-portrait Australian lanscape

6. Józef Marian Chełmoński Józef Marian Chełmoński 1849-1914 He was a painter, who represented the trend in art called "Polish Patriotic Painting". The works that he followed were landscapes and villages. His paintings express love of nature and country people life.

7. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS The storks Partriges on the snow Thunderstorm

8. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS Indian summer Migration of Cranes

9. Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) He was one of the most famous painters of Polish symbolism. He painted portraits and folk life scenes. Malczewski's paintings were abounding with sorrow and mystery, fantastic and unreal creatures: angels, chimeras, fauns etc.

10. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS Melancholy Polish Hamlet Polonia

11. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS Don Kichot and Sancho Pansa Christ in Emmaus

12. Stanisław Wyspiański 1869 – 1907 Polish painter, secessionist. He painted numerous portraits of women, children, self-portraits, impressionistic landscapes of Krakow. He was excellent in pastels. He was also famous as an illustrator of books and as the playwright, poet as well as interior and furniture designer. He developed his skills designing stained-glass windows.

13. HIS MASTERPIECES Motherhood Sleeping Staś Bend of the Vistula river God the Father bringing the world out of chaos

14. Nikifor 1895-1968 He’s known as Nikifor Krynicki and Epifaniusz Drowniak. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures - on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. He became famous as a primitivist painter.

15. HIS MASTERPIECES Smoking chimneys Railway station in Krynica

16. Tadeusz Makowski 1882 - 1932 He was a prominent Polish painter active in France for most of his life. Makowski started off as a landscape painter but then shifted towards Post- Impressionism and Cubism. He met Pablo Picasso, who was his good friend.

17. HIS MASTERPIECES Poisoned Well Flowers in front of a cottage Landscape from Britanny

18. HIS MASTERPIECES

19. Julian Fałat 1853 - 1929 He was one of the most prolific Polish painters of watercolor and one of the country's foremost landscape painters as well as one of the leading Polish impressionists.

20. HIS MASTERPIECES Old man praying Elk Winter landscape with a river

21. Zdzisław Beksiński Zdzisław Beksiński 1929-2005 Polish painter, draftsman, sculptor, photographer and artist who used computer graphics.

22. HIS MASTERPIECES Dead Sea Lodowy Tyn Morów Bad Wierg

23. Jerzy Duda-Gracz 1941 - 2004 Polish painter, surrealist and symbolist. He was described as "insightful satirist”. His painting has always aroused strong emotions. Presenting the people with a grotesquely deformed bodies and using of symbols, he exposed the human flaws - stupidity, intolerance, hypocrisy, arrogance, laziness, blind fascination with money and American culture.

24. HIS MASTERPIECES Ora et colabora Indian summer Big emigration

25. Tadeusz Kantor 1915 - 1990 He painted in a surrealistic style. Kantor’s painting is characterized by abstractness and departure from all conventions in an art.

26. HIS MASTERPIECES Abstract Composition

27. HIS MASTERPIECES Green Umbrella

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