Background
Jacek Malczewski was born on July 15, 1854 in Radom, part of Congress Poland, controlled then by the Russian Empire (present-day Radom, Poland). His father, Julian Malczewski, was a Polish patriot and social activist.
Jacek Malczewski was born on July 15, 1854 in Radom, part of Congress Poland, controlled then by the Russian Empire (present-day Radom, Poland). His father, Julian Malczewski, was a Polish patriot and social activist.
Initially, Jacek attended art classes in the workshop of Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. In 1873, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts (present-day Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts). In 1876, the painter left for Paris, where he studied for a year at the École des Beaux-Arts. Jacek also attended the Académie Suisse.
Malczewski was also trained by Jan Matejko.
Malczewski's art concentrated on a few themes which were constantly developed, reshaped and interwoven. The artist's imagination circled around a few questions which he kept posing from different angles, exploring different aspects of the same matter - a matter which was as elusive as it was symbolic.
During the period from 1885 to 1916, Jacek Malczewski traveled widely and visited such cities, as Paris, Munich and Vienna. He also made several trips to Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Within 1897-1900 and 1912-1921, Jacek held the post of a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (present-day Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts). In 1912, he was promoted to the post of a Rector of the Academy.
During World War I, Malczewski stayed in Vienna and returned to Krakow in 1916.
Jacek took part in the archaeological expedition, organized by his friend Karol Lanckoroński.
In 1903, the first individual exhibition of Malczewski's art was hosted by the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow and Lviv, and by the Society for Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Subsequent individual exhibitions were organized in Poznan (1911, 1925), Krakow (1924), Warsaw (1925), Lviv (1926, 1929) and Lodz (1926).
Malczewski also participated in many international exhibitions, including those in Munich, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Chicago, Paris, Vienna, London, Venice and Brussels.
Follow the Stream (left wing)
Death
Three heads, love
St. John and Salome
Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski
Self-portrait in an armour
Sunflowers
Ellenai
Resurrection
Poisoned Well Chimera
Portrait of Władysław Żeleński
Three heads, hope
A woman in a grove
Idyll
Returning from the Fields
Self-portrait, vistula river behind
Portrait of the Artist's Fiance
Thanatos
Artist and Muse
Eloe
Christ and the Samaritian Woman
The Tribute Money (triptych) left
The Prodigal Son
Student
Self-portrait in White Dress
Angels with Tobias
Polish Hector
Eloe from Ellenai
Portrait of Helena Marcell
Thanatos II
Christ in Emmaus
Landscape with Tobiah
Medusa
Painter's Inspiration
The Gardener
Portrait of Józef Piłsudski
Ukrainian
Self-Portrait
Allegro
Elle death
Follow the Stream (right wing)
The resurrection (immortality)
Bacchante (Portrait of Maria Bal)
The court
Self-portrait with the muses
My Life My Soul
In the dust cloud
Back in the homeland (Back from Siberia)
Death
Portrait of Edward Raczynski
Finis Poloniae
Lutoslawice
Law
Corpus Christi
Angel, I will follow you
Severus
Death
Self-portrait with palette
Polonia
Melancholia
At the stage (Siberians)
Self-portrait with hyacinth
Art
Self-portrait with Death
Thanatos
Portrait of Wladyslaw Reymont
Louis Zelenski
One Chord
Polonia II
Self-portrait with a palette
Self-portrait with skull
Poisoned Well II
Portrait of Jan Kasprowicz
Death on deportees route to siberia
Self-Portrait
Christ and Samaritan Woman
The story of a song (Portrait of Adam Asnyk)
Portrait of Tadeusz Błotnicki with Medusa
My Life Return
Portrait of Erazm Baracz
Vision
Hercules on the Crossroad
Follow the Stream (central part)
Poisoned Well III
Farewell to Atelier
In wells
Angel and the LIttle Shepherd Boy
Self-portrait in Armour
Chimera
Poisoned Well
My models
My Life Childhood
Tobiah and the Fates
Self-portrait with Pisanka
Portrait
Enslavement
The Painter Boy
Harpy in a dream
The landscape above the Vistula
Portrait of Adam Asnyk with a Muse
Portrait of Feliks Jasienski
Reconciliation
Country
Death of Ellenai
Christ and Samaritan Woman
Self-Portrait
Intermezzo
Spring
Death of Ellenai
My song
Portrait of Waclaw Karczewski
Memories of youth
Poisoned Well I
Christmas Eve in Siberia
Portrait of Stanislaw Bryniarski
Polonia
Courtyard in zoo
The Model
Washing of feet
Winter Landscape
Our Lady
Portrait of Maria Balowa
Angel and the LIttle Shepherd Boy
Portrait of Stanisław Witkiewicz
Christ before Pilate
Respite
Poisoned Well IV
The Tribute Money (triptych) right
Passing on the Palette
Destiny
Błędne koło (Vicious circle)
Three heads, faith
Study of a woman by the window
The Tribute Money (triptych) middle
Pythia
Poisoned Well V
Saint Agnes
Portrait of Stanislaw Bryniarski
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Jacek was married to Maria Garlewska. The couple had a son, Rafał Malczewski, a painter.