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Maksymilian Gierymski: works, inspirations, reception. 25.04-10.08.2014 Maksymilian Gierymski: works, inspirations, reception.
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The National Museum in Krakow reminds the creative output of Maksymilian Gierymski (1846–1874), one of the most famous 19th-century Polish painters belonging to artists' colony in Munich. The 140th anniversary of the artist's death, which is celebrated this year, was the pretext for the exhibition. The artist, who died young, at the age of only 28, left creative output which inspired next generations of artists and was the beginning of the first Polish school of landscape painting.

The National Museum in Krakow does not only show works by Gierymski but also by other artists from Munich. Therefore, apart from 55 oil paitings, 55 works on paper by this artist, we also saw works by Polish, German, French and Hungarian painters:. including Józef Brandt, Adam Chmielowski, Józef Chełmoński, Stanisław Witkiewicz, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, Władysław Malecki, Eduard Schleich the Elder, Ludwig Hartmann and Mihály Munkács.


Apart from Maksymilian Gierymski's most famous works, such as "Adiutant sztabowy" ("Staff Adiutant"), "Konna kawalkada w brzezince" ("Cavalcade in a birch grove"), "Obóz Cyganów I" ("Gypsy camp I") or "Patrol powstańców"("Insurgent patrol"), the artist's last painting was also be presented "Polowanie »par force« na jelenia" ("Deer hunting »par force«") from the collection of the Kunsthalle in Kiel - and "Wiosna w małym miasteczku" ("Spring in a small town") (from a private collection in Buenos Aires) – long considered to have been lost, which was presented in Poland for the first time.


The exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow was consist of seven parts, each of which highlights the most important thematic threads in the artist's work. In this way, we saw his youthful works and paintings centring on the uprising theme. We become familiar with intimate landscape paintings, showing the artist's complex relation to nature, which is described as romantic realism. We saw the so-called Zopf [German der Zopf – plait], i.e. hunting scenes with Rococo costumes which were immortalized by Maksymilian Gierymski in paintings from the years 1871–1874, owing to which he got orders from rich clients. We were also enter the world of the artists' colony which was active in Munich in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Maksymilian Gierymski was shown in the company of artists who created during that period, who were inspired by his work and who he inspired.

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