Stanislaw Wyspianski Portraits

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Stanisaw Wyspiaski is widely regarded as Poland's greatest artist and as the founder of modern Polish drama.

Stanisaw Wyspiaski (1869-1907), is widely regarded as Poland's greatest artist whose work is just beginning to be appreciated outside of Central Europe. Best known as the founder of modern Polish drama, he was also an artist and applied arts designer. During his short career he made a number of striking portraits in pastel of his family and and contemporary Cracovians which collectively provide a fascinating insight into the cultural life of a nation under partition and striving for independence.

This illustrated publication showcases 70 of Wyspiaski's portraits. Full of colour and vitality, his works draw on indigenous folk traditions, but are executed in a progressive expressive style influenced by the years Wyspiaski spent in Paris, and epitomise the ideals and aspirations of the Young Poland movement with which he is closely associated.

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Alison Smith is Director of Collections and Research at the Wallace Collection, London, and former Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Previously published works include: Charles III: The Making of a King (National Portrait Gallery, 2023), Edward Burne-Jones (Tate Publishing, 2018), and Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites (Yale University Press, 2017).

Julia Griffin, is an independent art historian and curator of the Young Poland exhibition (October 2021-January 2022) at the William Morris Gallery. Previous published works include: Young Poland: The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1918 (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2020), and William Morris (Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2021).

Andrzej Szczerski is the Director of the National Museum, Krakow. Previously published works include: Transformation. Art in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 (Jagiellonian University Press, 2018), The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe (1890-1918) (Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015), Conversations with God: Jan Matejko's Copernicus (2021, Yale University Press), and Young Poland: The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1918 (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2020).

Magdalena Laskowska is a Curator (Wyspiaski collection) at the National Museum, Krakow.

Maria Skrzpczak-Latzke is a Curator at the National Museum, Posnan.

Agnieszka Skalska is a Curator at the National Museum, Posnan.