Back

Landscape with Two Figures

Jacek Malczewski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-1372
Author: Jacek Malczewski
Name: Landscape with Two Figures
Date of creation: 1897
Country: Poland
Technique: drawing
Material: Indian ink brush paper
Dimensions: 21 x 33.9 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: narrative art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art

Information about author

Author: Jacek Malczewski
Author in the original: Jacek Malczewski
Artist's lifetime: 1854–1929
Country: Poland
Biography: Jacek Malczewski (July 14, 1854, Radom, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire – October 8, 1929, Krakow, Republic of Poland) was an outstanding artist and one of the most prominent representatives of Polish Symbolism. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, where his teacher was Jan Matejko. The artist participated in an archeological expedition to Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Greece, which was organized by Count Karol Lanckoronski. He also visited Munich and Italy. Jacek Malczewski was one of the founders of the art union "Sztuka" ("Art"). The artist's creative heritage includes landscapes and portraiture, symbolic compositions, interpretations of religious themes, and numerous self-portraits in various images.

Object description

This is a minimalist composition, in which the winter garden serves as a background. The artist made several sketches of trees with bare branches. A long and low house with two windows but without a roof is depicted in the distance. In the foreground there is a road and two human figures; the taller figure is depicted from the back in a movement to the right; the head of the figure is turned to the right to a smaller figure (apparently a child), which is dressed in warm clothes and depicted in a counter-movement to the left.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right of the painting there is an inscription "97/J Malczewski, на звороті напис: Potwierdzam autentyczność /Wlastimil Hofman"

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery