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Forever Young! Poland and It's Art Around 1900 26.09.2012-04.01.2015 Forever Young! Poland and It's Art Around 1900
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What makes it still attractive, interesting and liked despite the passage of time? Simply - eternally young? This question is asked by an exhibition presenting the best of around-1900 Polish Art in the renovated interiors of the Szołayski Tenement House - a Branch of the National Museum in Kraków, in the capital city of art at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.

The National Museum in Kraków invites you to the great exhibition entitled Forever Young! Poland and it's art around 1900, where we display around 300 works: paintings, prints, sculptures and crafts selected mostly from the Museum's own collection. The title of the exhibition alludes to the unwaning popularity of the art of that era, despite the fact, that, as it may seem, everything has already been said about it. It was not an accident that the Szołayski Tenement House was chosen for the venue of the exhibition. It was there that Feliks Mangghi Jasieński's (Young Poland's art collector) collections were housed and until recently the Museum of the most distinguished artist of that time - Stanisław Wyspiański was located there.

At the exhibition, in the first room, the Young Poland climate is evoked by the Green Balloon cabaret associated with personalities such as: Leon Schiller, Kazimierz Sichulski, Witold Wojtkiewicz, Adolf Nowaczyński and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński. The irreverent and refreshing character of these nocturnal happenings is documented by drawings commenting on the Galician reality, prints from Teka Melpomeny with caricatures of Kraków actors in their most famous roles.

In the adjacent room, we will see self-portraits of authors whose works are presented in the further part of the exhibition, including: Olga Boznańska, Julian Fałat, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer, Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański.

The slogan important for modernism - the city myth - will be illustrated with images of the Market Square, the Planty Park, Kraków churches or the Wawel Castle, all filled with melancholy, suggestively materializingg in the painting Planty o świcie (Planty Park at dawn) by Stanisław Wyspiański.

MNK The Szołayski

pl. Szczepański 9, 31-011 Kraków
  • Monday: closed
  • Tuesday: 10.00-18.00
  • Wednesday - Sunday: 10.00-16.00
Wacław Szymanowski, Hutsul courtship (Idyll), 1892
Forever Young! Poland and its Art around 1900