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Jan Matejko
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Maid of Orleans - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Augustus II the Strong - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Henryk Pobozny - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Son George (Jan Matejko) - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Victoria Kosinska (Jan Matejko) - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Matejko Family Portrait - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Catherine Potocka - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Varna - Jan MatejkoPrint
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The Poisoning of Queen Bona - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Louis of Anjou - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Coronation - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Samuel Zborowski - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Julian Bukowski (Jan Matejko) - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Wladyslaw the Exile - Jan MatejkoPrint
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John Casimir - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Battle of Grunwald, the Death of the Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen (Detail) - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Peter Moszynski - Jan MatejkoPrint
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The Murder of St Stanislaus - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Casimir the Just - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Henry Valois - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Hetman of the Polish Crown in the 17th Century - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Maria Maurizio - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Ostafij Daszkiewicz - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Blind Veit Stoss with Daughter - Jan MatejkoPrint
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Artist Biography
Jan Matejko
Nietzsche, tipping into psychosis in Turin in January 1889, sent Matejko an unsolicited letter. That a philosopher on the edge of madness would think to write to a Polish history painter says something about how far Matejko's reputation had travelled by the end of his life.
Matejko was born in Krakow in 1838 to a Czech father and a half-German, half-Polish mother. Despite being only one-quarter Polish by blood, his household was fiercely patriotic: Polish books, portraits of Polish heroes, and a brother who followed General Jozef Bem into the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (and died in battle). He enrolled at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts at fourteen, studying under Wojciech Stattler. He never mastered a foreign language and struggled even with Polish, which made the public appearances demanded of him throughout his career an ordeal.
His ambition was to paint Polish history on a monumental scale. Stanczyk (1862) showed the royal jester alone with the news of a military defeat, a painting that reads as an editorial cartoon stretched to the size of a wall. Battle of Grunwald (1878) and Rejtan (1866) followed, each canvas an argument about national identity dressed as historical spectacle. Wilhelm von Kaulbach's method of "historical symbolism", which prioritised interpretation over documentary accuracy, shaped Matejko's approach. His brother Franciszek, a historian at the Jagiellonian Library, fed him archival detail.
As director of the Krakow School of Fine Arts, he trained over eighty students. Maurycy Gottlieb, Jacek Malczewski, Jozef Mehoffer and Stanislaw Wyspianski all passed through his studio; several became leading figures in the Young Poland movement, earning Matejko the title "Father of Young Poland". In 1887 he attended the opening of Queen Jadwiga's sarcophagus to sketch her skull for a portrait. He died in 1893, aged fifty-five.
Matejko was born in Krakow in 1838 to a Czech father and a half-German, half-Polish mother. Despite being only one-quarter Polish by blood, his household was fiercely patriotic: Polish books, portraits of Polish heroes, and a brother who followed General Jozef Bem into the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (and died in battle). He enrolled at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts at fourteen, studying under Wojciech Stattler. He never mastered a foreign language and struggled even with Polish, which made the public appearances demanded of him throughout his career an ordeal.
His ambition was to paint Polish history on a monumental scale. Stanczyk (1862) showed the royal jester alone with the news of a military defeat, a painting that reads as an editorial cartoon stretched to the size of a wall. Battle of Grunwald (1878) and Rejtan (1866) followed, each canvas an argument about national identity dressed as historical spectacle. Wilhelm von Kaulbach's method of "historical symbolism", which prioritised interpretation over documentary accuracy, shaped Matejko's approach. His brother Franciszek, a historian at the Jagiellonian Library, fed him archival detail.
As director of the Krakow School of Fine Arts, he trained over eighty students. Maurycy Gottlieb, Jacek Malczewski, Jozef Mehoffer and Stanislaw Wyspianski all passed through his studio; several became leading figures in the Young Poland movement, earning Matejko the title "Father of Young Poland". In 1887 he attended the opening of Queen Jadwiga's sarcophagus to sketch her skull for a portrait. He died in 1893, aged fifty-five.
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