Eligiusz Niewiadomski was a Polish modernist painter and art critic who sympathized with the right-wing National Democracy movement. In 1922 he assassinated Poland's first President, Gabriel Narutowicz, in his first week in office as president.
Maurycy Gottlieb(Polish pronunciation ; February 21/28, 1856 – July 17, 1879) was a Polish-Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottllieb died at the age of 23.
January Suchodolski was a Polish painter and Army officer, and a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable female painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism, though she rejected this label.
Jacek Malczewski was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism. His creative output combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek mythology, folk tales, as well as his love of the natural world. He was the father of painter Rafał Malczewski.
Kazimierz Alchimowicz was a Polish romantic painter born in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire.
Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish painter based in Rome, best remembered for his monumental academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by many national galleries of Europe.
Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski. He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of Impressionism in Poland.
Alfred Jan Maksymilian Kowalski was a Polish painter and representative of the Munich School.
Jan Stanisławski was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Aleksander Lesser was a Polish painter, illustrator, sketch artist, art critic, and amateur researcher of antiquities who was of Jewish descent. Lesser holds a place in Polish art history "as an outstanding representative of his country’s historical school." He specialized in Polish historical and contemporary themes, and he was known and respected in artistic and scholarly circles. He was a member of Kraków's Academy of Learning and co-founder of Warsaw's Zachęta, the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts.
Wincenty Wodzinowski was a Polish painter and art teacher; associated with the Young Poland movement.
Kazimierz Sichulski was a Polish painter, lithographer and caricaturist; associated with the Young Poland movement. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Marceli Harasimowicz was a Polish landscape painter and museum curator.
Stanisław Lentz was a Polish painter, portraitist, illustrator, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1909.
Aleksander Augustynowicz was a Polish painter, active between 1865 and 1944 in Poland.
Kazimierz Stabrowski was a Polish painter, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He also founded the first lodges of the Theosophical Society in Poland.
Władysław Wankie was a Polish painter and art critic. He painted realist landscape paintings, genre scenes, religious art and symbolic art. He was the co-author of the Panorama of the Tatra Mountains.
Wacław Wąsowicz was a Polish painter and printmaker.
Józef Rapacki was a Polish painter, watercolorist and graphic designer; best known for his nostalgic landscapes of Mazovia.
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Female nude on a rock
Maximilian's Square in Munich
