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The fifth edition of the exhibition at the Wyspia\u0144ski Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Krak\u00f3w, will be expanded with two additional presentations in the ground-floor gallery: “In the Paris Atelier of Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski and J\u00f3zef Mehoffer” and My Wonderful Youth<\/em>. Portraits of Wanda Siemiaszkowa as the Bride in Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski’s The Wedding<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first presentation (June\u2013December 2026) features works by Wyspia\u0144ski and Mehoffer created during their studies in the French capital, including portraits they painted of one another and a view of the interior of one of their Parisian studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski and J\u00f3zef Mehoffer were first pupils at the Training School in the Larisch Palace, then students at St Anne\u2019s Gymnasium in Krak\u00f3w, and later at the School of Fine Arts in Krak\u00f3w. They worked together on the polychromy of St Mary\u2019s Basilica in Krak\u00f3w and, almost simultaneously, departed for Paris to continue their artistic studies. In the French capital they shared the same studio: first at 14 rue de l\u2019Echaud\u00e9 and later at 14 avenue du Maine. Together they undertook designs for stained-glass windows for St Mary\u2019s Basilica in Krak\u00f3w (1890\u20131891), the polychromy of the Rudolfinum in Prague (1891), the curtain for the Municipal Theatre in Krak\u00f3w (1892), and stained-glass windows for Lviv Cathedral (1892\u20131894).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout their shared years of study in Paris, Wyspia\u0144ski and Mehoffer frequently portrayed one another. Mehoffer\u2019s recollections survive in his Diary<\/em>. Under the date 15 November 1892, he noted: \u201cThis morning I painted him [Wyspia\u0144ski]; he did not pose, but instead painted himself again from the mirror (\u2026)\u201d; and on 5 May 1893: \u201cToday I drew studies for Kazimierz<\/em> \u2014 Wysp[ia\u0144ski] posed, then I imitated Polish kings, adopting movements appropriate to them \u2014 as if in portraits (\u2026)\u201d. Wyspia\u0144ski, in turn, described their collaboration in a letter to Lucjan Rydel dated 8 March 1893: \u201cWe constantly draw here, painting each other at every moment (\u2026)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond presenting the relationship between the two artists, the exhibition also aims to showcase two works previously unknown to a wider audience, loaned from private collections and from the Museum of Krak\u00f3w. A pastel depicting the interior of one of Wyspia\u0144ski\u2019s Paris studios was listed in the 1925 catalogue of the artist\u2019s works as belonging to Dr W\u0142adys\u0142aw Federowicz, a collector of several other works from Wyspia\u0144ski\u2019s Parisian period. A watercolour by J\u00f3zef Mehoffer from the collection of the Museum of Krak\u00f3w shows Wyspia\u0144ski posing for his friend for one of his historical paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second presentation (January\u2013May 2027) will feature two pastel portraits of the actress Wanda Siemaszkowa, who played the role of the Bride in the premiere production of Wyspia\u0144ski\u2019s The Wedding<\/em>, staged at the Krak\u00f3w Municipal Theatre on 16 March 1901.kiego Teatru Miejskiego\u00a016 marca 1901 roku.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fifth edition of the exhibition at the Wyspia\u0144ski Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Krak\u00f3w, will be expanded with two additional presentations in the ground-floor gallery: “In the Paris Atelier of Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski and J\u00f3zef Mehoffer” and My Wonderful Youth. Portraits of Wanda Siemiaszkowa as the Bride in Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski’s The Wedding. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34599,"template":"","wystawy_categories":[171],"class_list":["post-34597","wystawy","type-wystawy","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wystawy_categories-temporary-exhibition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy\/34597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wystawy"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy\/34597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34601,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy\/34597\/revisions\/34601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wystawy_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wystawy_categories?post=34597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}