Jan Matejko - Krakow, Poland
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N 50° 03.834 E 019° 56.441
34U E 424183 N 5546272
Jan Matejko was one of Poland's most well-known painters.
Waymark Code: WMQ29Q
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 12/05/2015
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This plaque has a relief of the artist and curiously is in English...not Polish...reading:
"JAN MATEJKO
1838
1893
THE MOST
EMINENT
REPRESENTATIVE
OF POLISH
HISTORICAL
PAINTING"
The depicted palette has Braille writing on it.
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"Jan Alojzy Matejko (About this sound Polish pronunciation (help·info)) (also known as Jan Mateyko; June 24, 1838 – November 1, 1893) was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His works include large oil on canvas paintings like Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869) or Battle of Grunwald (1878), numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish kings, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is counted among the most famous Polish painters.
Matejko spent most of his life in Kraków. His teachers at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts included Wojciech Korneli Stattler and Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz. Later, he became a director at this institution, which eventually was renamed to Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. A number of his students became prominent painters themselves, including Maurycy Gottlieb, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanislaw Wyspianski."