Gallery of the Masters 
Jan Matejko
1838-1893 Poland/History
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Brief Biography-Jan (Jean Aloysius) Matejko was born in Kraków in 1838. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. Then, in 1859, he went to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts for one year, followed by a short stay at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and afterwards set up a studio back in Kraków. By 1865 he had success, gained a first-class medal at the Paris Exhibition in 1867 and was bestowed with the Legion of Honour three years later. He became the Director of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1872. Among his many successful students were Jacek Malczewski, Franciszek Żmurko and Maurycy Gottlieb. Matejko was honoured with numerous awards and made a correspondent member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1873. As a result, the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts became known as the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. |
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The Fall
of Poland
Alfred
Potocki
Battle of
Grunwald
Armor of Stefan
Batory
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
with Tuhaj Bej
Astronomer
Copernicus-
Fragment of
Lwow Oath
Christianization
of Poland
Death of Sigismund
Augustus at Knyszyn
Gamrat and
Stanczyk
Hanging of the
Sigismund Bell
Jan Kochanowski
over his Daughter-
Nicholas
Zyblikiewicza
Stephen Bathory
at Pskov
Poisoning of
Queen Bona
The Alchemist
Sedziwoj
Stanczyk
Self-
portrait
Wernyhora
Stanislaw
Tarnowski
The Republic at
Zenith of Power-
The Artist's Four
Children
The Union
of Lublin
The Death of Leszek
the White
Adoption of the
Polish Constitution
Victory of
John III Sobiesk
