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Jan Matejko - Coronation of the First King, 1001 AD, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”

Coronation of the First King, 1001 AD, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland” (1889)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
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Jan Matejko

Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Rejtan (1866), the Union of Lublin (1869), the Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or the Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland. Matejko was among the notable people to receive an unsolicited letter from the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, as the latter tipped, in January 1889, into his psychotic breakdown while in Turin.

Matejko spent most of his life in Kraków. His teachers at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts included Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. Later, he became director of the institution, which in time was renamed the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. A number of his students became prominent artists in their own right, including Maurycy Gottlieb, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanisław Wyspiański. He is regarded as "the Father of the Młoda Polska" Arts and Crafts movement in Poland.

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Power of Commonwealth at its Zenith, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”

Power of Commonwealth at its Zenith, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland” (1889)

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Sketch for “Skarga’s Sermon”

Sketch for “Skarga’s Sermon” (1861)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
View from the town hall tower

View from the town hall tower (1857)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Battle of Grunwald

Battle of Grunwald (1878)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Male nude – torso of a male figure

Male nude – torso of a male figure (1859)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Portrait of Piotr Moszyński

Portrait of Piotr Moszyński (1874)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Studia kostiumowe – Szereg postaci męskich w strojach wojskowych

Studia kostiumowe – Szereg postaci męskich w strojach wojskowych (1855-1860)

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The Maid of Orleans

The Maid of Orleans (1883)

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Academic study – young man

Academic study – young man (1859)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Sketch of horse’s head for the painting “Zamoyski at Byczyna”

Sketch of horse’s head for the painting “Zamoyski at Byczyna” (1883)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Portrait of Henryk Krajewski

Portrait of Henryk Krajewski (1892)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Angel’s head (portrait of Helena’s daughter)

Angel’s head (portrait of Helena’s daughter) (1889)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Head of an Old Man with a Grey Beard

Head of an Old Man with a Grey Beard (1858)

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Portrait of Karol Podlewski

Portrait of Karol Podlewski (1882)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
Defeat at Legnica, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”

Defeat at Legnica, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland” (1888)

Jan Matejko (Polish, 1838-1893)
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