Culture of Poland

Movements

Romanesque Gothic Renaissance Baroque Enlightenment Romanticism Positivism Young Poland Interbellum World War II Socialist Realism Modern Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x609, 132 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Polish baroque started in the late 16th century. ... The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland were developed later then in the Western Europe, as Polish bourgeoisie was weaker, and szlachta (nobility) culture (Sarmatism) together with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth political system (Golden Freedoms) were in deep crisis. ... Romanticism in Poland was eventually followed with the period known as positivism in Poland. ... For other meanings of positivism, see Positivism. ... Young Poland (Polish Młoda Polska) is a modernist period in Polish art, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. ...

Arts

Literature Music Theater Poland — Polish literature Writers and novelists Main article: List of Polish language authors Writers in chronological order of birth: Jan Potocki (1761–1815) Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) Władysław Reymont (1867–1925) Zofia Nałkowska... Poland has a lively and diverse music scene and even its own music genres like the sung poetry and disco polo. ... Prominent figures in Polish theater are: Wojciech Boguslawski Adam Hanuszkiewicz Konrad Swinarski Tadeusz Kantor Tadeusz Lomnicki Kazimierz Dejmek Krystian Lupa Helena Modrzejewska Leon Kruczkowski Jerzy Grotowski See also: List of famous Poles Categories: Polish culture ...

Artists

Authors Composers Painters Poets List of Polish language authors This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... List of Polish composers: // 15th century Mikołaj Radomski (fl. ... Poets who have written much of their poetry in the Polish language. ...

This is an alphabetical listing of Polish painters. The following list is a partial list of painters. ...

See also

• Poland
• List of famous Poles
• List of painters

A

• Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz
• Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz
• Kazimierz Alchimowicz
• Teodor Axentowicz

B

• Marcello Bacciarelli
• Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929–2005)
• Jan Betley (1908–1980)
• Henryka Beyer
• Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa
• Izaak van den Blocke
• Krzysztof Boguszewski
• Włodzimierz Borowski
• Olga Boznańska
• Jozef Brandt
• Antoni Brodowski
• Tadeusz Brzozowski

Zdzisław Beksiński (24 February 1929 – 22 February 2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist. ... -1... Wikimedia Commons has multimedia related to: Jan Betley External link Jan Betley (in Polish) Categories: Artist stubs | 1908 births | 1980 deaths | Polish painters ... 1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Self-portrait from 1893 Olga BoznaÅ„ska (Kraków 1865 - Paris 1940), Polish woman painter. ... Categories: Poland-related stubs | 1841 births | 1915 deaths | Polish painters ...

C

• Józef Chełmoński (1849–1905)
• Daniel Chodowiecki
• Adam Chmielowski
• Leon Chwistek
• Tomasz Ciecierski
• Boleslaw Cybis
• Jan Cybis
• Wladyslaw Czachorski
• Jozef Czapski
• Marcin Czarny
• Szymon Czechowicz
• Tytus Czyzewski

The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Portrait of Daniel Chodowiecki, painted posthumously by Adolph von Menzel in 1859 Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki, a Polish- German painter, was born in Danzig (then and now called Gdańsk and part of Poland), on October 16, 1726. ... Leon Chwistek Leon Chwistek (b. ... Wlayslaw Czachorski (born 1850-1911) In 1866 Czachorski went to the Warsaw Drawing School and had Rafal Hadziewicz as a peer. ...

D

• Eugeniusz Dabrowski
• Stanislaw Dębicki
• Andrzej Dłużniewski
• Jan Dobkowski
• Tommaso Dolabella
• Tadeusz Dominik
• Edward Dwurnik

Andrzej Dluzniewski (1939-) is considered one of the greatest contemporary Polish sculptors. ... Tommaso Dolabella (1570-1650) was a Baroque painter from Venice, who settled in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the royal court of King Sigismund III Vasa. ...

E

• Eugeniusz Eibisch

F

• Julian Falat
• Wojciech Fangor
• Jerzy Fedkowicz
• Stanislaw Fijalkowski
• Francis of Sieradz

Julian Falat, (1853 to 1929), was one of the most extensive Polish painters of watercolor as well as one of that countrys foremost landscape painters. ... Wojciech Fangor (1922-) is a world famous Polish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and co-creator of the Polish poster school. ...

G

• Wojciech Gerson
• Stefan Gierowski
• Aleksander Gierymski
• Maksymilian Gierymski
• Jan Gotard
• Leopold Gottlieb
• Maurycy Gottlieb
• Artur Grottger
• Aleksander Gryglewski
• Gustaw Gwozdecki

Stefan Gierowski (1925-) is a Polish abstractionist painter of great renown. ... Self-portrait, 1876. ...

H

• Jan Jozef Haar
• Mikolaj Haberschrack
• Herman Han
• Karol Hiller
• Vlastimil Hofman

J

• Maria Jarema
• Wladyslaw Jarocki

K

• Rajmund Kanelba (1897–1960)
• Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990)
• Leon Kaplinski
• Alfons Karpinski (1875–1961)
• Wincenty Kasprzycki
• Mojzesz Kisling (1891–1953)
• Marcin Kober
• Aleksander Kobzdej
• Roman Kochanowski
• Lukasz Korolkiewicz
• Jerzy Kossak
• Juliusz Kossak
• Wojciech Kossak (born 1857)
• Franciszek Kostrzewski
• Aleksander Kotsis
• Katarzyna Kozyra
• Andre de Krayewski
• Edward Krasiński, painter
• Janina Kraupe-Swiderska
• Emil Krcha
• Jan Krieg
• Nikifor Krynicki, painter
• Monika Krystowczyk
• Konrad Krzyzanowski
• Zofia Kulik
• Tadeusz Kuntze-Konicz
• Teofil Kwiatkowski
• Paweł Kwiek

Raymond Kanelba also Rajmund Kanelba (1897-1960) was a 20th century Polish painter. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tadeusz Kantor (b April 6, 1915 in Wielopole SkrzyÅ„skie - December 8, 1990 in Kraków, Poland) was an Polish painter, scene designer and theatre director. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Alfons Karpiński (February 20, 1875 in Rozwadów near Tarnobrzeg - June 6, 1961 in Kraków, Polish painter. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moise Kisling Moise Kisling (January 22, 1891 - April 29, 1953) was a Polish painter. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jerzy Kossak (1886-1955) was a Polish painter. ... Juliusz Fortunat Kossak (December 15, 1824 - February 3, 1899) was a Polish painter. ... Wojciech Kossak, self-portrait. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Franciszek Kostrzewski (Warsaw, Poland, 1826 — 1911, Warsaw) was a Polish painter. ... Andre de Krayewski (b. ... Teofil Jaksa Antoni Kwiatkowski (b. ...

L

• Karol Larisch
• Ludwik de Laveaux
• Jan Lebenstein
• Dominik Lejman
• Franciszek Lekszycki
• Stanislaw Lentz
• Bronislaw Wojciech Linke
• Leopold Loeffler
• Krzysztof Lubieniecki

M

• Robert Maciejuk
• Tadeusz Makowski
• Zbigniew Makowski
• Jacek Malczewski
• Rafal Malczewski
• Wladyslaw Malecki
• Louis Marcoussis
• Adam Marczyński
• Jozef Marszewski
• Stanislaw Maslowski
• Jan Matejko
• Jozef Mehoffer
• Zygmunt Menkes
• Jakob Mertens
• Michael of Dzialdow
• Antoni Michalak
• Piotr Michałowski
• Kazimierz Mikulski
• Augustyn Mirys
• Jarosław Modzelewski
• Anton Moller
• Teresa Murak

Louis marcoussis was a polish painter whom the Spanish surrealist Joan Mirò (1893-1983), in 1930, started Graphic Technique with, but had to stop in 1939 due to the emergence of WWII (1939-1945) ... Adam Marczynski (1908–1985) was a Polish painter. ... Jan Matejko , self-portrait Jan Matejko, also Jan Mateyko (b. ...

N

• Artur Nacht Samborski
• Eligiusz Niewiadomski
• Jan Piotr Norblin
• Jerzy Nowosielski

Eligiusz Niewiadomski (1869-1923) was a Polish modernist painter and art critic. ... Jerzy Nowosielski (b. ...

O

• Roman Opałka
• Edward Okun
• Aleksander Orłowski
• Martin Jan Ogrodnik

Roman Opałka (1931-) is a famous French painter of Polish origin. ... Self-portrait Aleksander Orłowski (1777–1832) was a Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire. ...

P

• Teresa Pagowska
• Michelangelo Palloni
• Jozef Pankiewicz
• Sebastian Pawczynski, painter, sculptor
• Włodzimierz Pawlak
• Henryk Piątkowski
• Jan Bogumil Plersch
• Kazimierz Pochwalski
• Wladyslaw Podkowinski
• Stefan Popowski
• Piotr Potworowski
• Wojciech Prażmowski
• Andrzej Pronaszko
• Zbigniew Pronaszko
• Tadeusz Pruszkowski
• Witold Pruszkowski

Tadeusz Pruszkowski (1888--1942) was a Polish painter and educator, and from 1922 a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. ...

R

• Zygmunt Radnicki
• Joanna Rajkowska
• Henryk Rodakowski
• Jan Henryk Rosen
• Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa
• Jan Rustem
• Ferdynand Ruszczyc
• Tadeusz Rybkowski
• Czeslaw Rzepinski

S

• Stanisław Samostrzelnik
• Wilhelm Sasnal
• Jan Sawka
• Martin Schoninck
• Daniel Schultz
• Bruno Schulz (1892–1942)
• Efraim and Menasze Seidenbeutel
• Jacek Sempolinski
• Kazimierz Sichulski
• Zygmunt Sidorowicz
• Henryk Siemiradzki
• Jozef Simmler
• Ludomir Slendzinski
• Wladyslaw Slewinski
• Franciszek Smuglewicz
• Marek Sobczyk
• Leszek Sobocki
• Jan Spychalski
• Kazimierz Stabrowski
• Jerzy Stajuda
• Jan Stanisławski
• Jan Byk Franciszek Starowieyski
• Wojciech Korneli Stattler
• Henryk Stażewski, (born 1894)
• Andrzej Stech
• Kajetan Stefanowicz
• Bartlomiej Strobel
• Zofia Stryjenska
• Wladyslaw Strzeminski
• January Suchodolski
• Felicjan Szczesny Kowarski
• Henryk Szczyglinski
• Jozef Szermentowski
• Stanislav Szukalski
• Jerzy Eleuter Szymonowicz-Siemiginowski

Self portrait of Schulz Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish novelist and painter of the Jewish faith, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Józef Simmler (1823 - 1868) was a Polish painter. ... Franciszek Smuglewicz Franciszek Smuglewicz (b. ... Henryk Stażewski (1894-1988) was a Polish painter, considered to be a pioneer of the classical avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... January Suchodolski (September 19, 1797 in Grodno – March 20, 1875 in Boimie near Siedlce) was a Polish painter and Army officer. ... Stanisław Szukalski (1893-1987) was a Polish-born painter and sculptor, and the creator of the pseudoscience of Zermatism. ...

T

• Leon Tarasewicz
• Tomasz Tatarczyk
• Wlodzimierz Tetmajer
• Jan Tricius
• Wincenty Trojanowski

V

• Zygmunt Vogel

W

• Zygmunt Waliszewski
• Jacek Waltos
• Wladyslaw Wankie
• Walenty Wankowicz
• Waclaw Wasowicz
• Czeslaw Wdowiszewski
• Wojciech Weiss
• Elisabeth Wierzbicka Wela
• Ryszard Winiarski
• Jakub Wessel
• Konrad Winkler
• Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851–1915)
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz a.k.a. “Witkacy” (1885–1939)
• Romuald Kamil Witkowski
• Kazimierz Wojniakowski
• Witold Wojtkiewicz
• Andrzej Wroblewski
• Leon Wyczolkowski
• Jan Wydra
• Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907)

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka) painter and sculptor, was born in Kracow in 1964. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Leon Wyczółkowski was one of the top painters of the Young Poland period, representatn of the realism in Polish contemporary art. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Z

• Marcin Zaleski
• Jan Zamoyski
• Franciszek Zmurko

Noble Family Zamoyski Coat of Arms Jelita Parents Stanisław Zamoyski Anna Herburt Consorts Anna Ossolińska Krystyna Radziwiłł Gryzelda Batory Barbara Tarnowska Children with Barbara Tarnowska Tomasz Zamoyski Date of Birth March 19, 1542 Place of Birth Skokówka, Poland Date of Death June 3, 1605 Place of Death Zamość, Poland Jan...

Ż

• Eugeniusz Żak