Clegg, Elizabeth. "Faux terrain: Discontinuous Space in the Early Work of Work Jack Malczewski," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 53, n. 2 (1990), pp. 198-208
Jacek Malczewski
Born: Radom, Poland, 14 or 15 July 1854
Died: Krakow, 8 October 1929
Nationality: Polish
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)
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