Polish1838–1893
Jan Matejko
Poland's best-known history painter, who spent almost all his life in Kraków. At a time when Poland had been partitioned and had no state of its own, he painted the turning points of its past. As head of the city's art school he taught a generation that included Stanisław Wyspiański and Józef Mehoffer.
A life in paintings
- 1838Born
- 1839Photography is announced
Daguerre’s process is made public in Paris. Painting no longer has to be the only way to record how things look.
Source: Wikipedia - 1862
- 1887Taught Józef MehofferKraków
Mehoffer was one of the students of Matejko's Kraków School of Fine Arts and, with Wyspiański, worked on Matejko's restoration of St Mary's Basilica from 1889, designing its stained-glass windows.
Source: WikipediaTaught Stanisław WyspiańskiKrakówMatejko knew Wyspiański as a boy through the Stankiewicz family that raised him and gave him his first artistic guidance. When Wyspiański entered the Kraków School of Fine Arts in 1887, Matejko, its head, asked him to help with the painted decoration of St Mary's Basilica.
Source: Wikipedia - 1893Died
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School · Kraków
Kraków School of Fine Arts
Kraków's art school, which Matejko later directed until his death in 1893; it was eventually renamed the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. His students there included Maurycy Gottlieb, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanisław Wyspiański.
- Józef Mehoffer
- Stanisław Wyspiański
Workshop · Kraków · 1889
St Mary's Basilica restoration (1889–1891)
Matejko painted and funded the new murals of Kraków's St Mary's Basilica during its 1887–1891 renovation, working with his students Wyspiański and Mehoffer, who designed the presbytery stained glass.
- Józef Mehoffer
- Stanisław Wyspiański
Where to see them
National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw
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