Artist

Stanisław Wyspiański

Portrait of Stanisław Wyspiański
Portrait of Stanisław Wyspiański

Polish, 1869–1907

Stanisław Wyspiański was a Polish Art Nouveau artist. 31 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Kraków. Stanisław Wyspiański was born in Kraków.

Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (pronounced; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter, poet, and interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created symbolic national dramas accordant with the artistic premises of the Young Poland movement. Wyspiański was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artists in Poland under the foreign partitions.

He combined modernism with traditional Polish folk and Romantic themes. He became known unofficially as a fourth Polish bard, after the earlier Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński).

Works by Stanisław Wyspiański

31 works in the catalog · 24 shown

Collections represented

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