Jacek Malczewski

Malczewski sets Polish allegory in plain fields — a painter meeting fauns, angels or Death among furrows and thistles, painted with dry, matter-of-fact realism.

Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) was a painter from Poland, associated with Symbolism.

A late-19th-century movement of dreams, myth, and inner emotion expressed through suggestive, evocative imagery. Symbolism →

More Symbolism painters: Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Gustave Moreau, Harald Sohlberg.

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Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski — Jacek Malczewski
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