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Jacek Malczewski

Born: Radom, Poland, 14 or 15 July 1854
Died: Krakow, 8 October 1929
Nationality: Polish
Background: 

impoverished bourgeois family

Studies: 

with Jan Matejko at School of Fine Arts, Krakow (1873-75 & 1877-79); with Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1886-87, Paris)

Career: 

1884 – works as a draughtsman on archaeological expedition to Asia Minor

1893 – visits Munich, meets Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Stuck

1896-1900 – teaches at Krakow School of Fine Arts

1897 - co-founder of Art Association Sztuka

1912-21 – teaches at Krakow School of Fine Arts

Member of Vienna Secession

Travels

Paris (1886-87); Italy (1880; 1890); Albania, Rhodes, Athens (1884); Munich (1885-86; 1893); Vienna (1914-16)

Important Artworks: 

The Unknown Note, 1902 (National Museum in Krakow)

Moment of Creation - Harpy in a Dream, 1907 (private collection)

Self-Portrait with Muse, 1908 (private collection)