Please think now about an icon. Yes, a Byzantine and a modern one, too. Close your eyes… What can you see? I bet you see a picture painted on a wooden board. Definitely on a board. And painted using the tempera technique. Plus, a lot of […]
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81 precious Japanese woodblock prints join the NMK collections
Museum collections are living things, ones which grow and evolve and which are sometimes damaged or destroyed by human greed and pride, yet which are still alive.
And you? What’s your question?
What’s your favourite smell in the museum? What emotions accompany you when you unwrap the long-awaited exhibits? Which work of art from our collection makes you laugh most and why? There’s one day a year when you can ask the curators from around the world anything […]
What’s the time at Witkacy’s?
On Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’ Still Life with a Clock. Still life constitutes one of the principal modern painting themes, often treated by the artists in a very particular way. In the 17th-century Dutch art, paintings depicting an arranged fragment of inanimate reality began to carry various symbolic […]
Asymmetrical Lady’s Visit to Krakow
Eugenia Wyszomirska, a beautiful and intriguing woman, permanently residing in the Museum of Katowice History, has paid a holiday visit to Krakow and can be admired in ten outstanding portraits by Witkacy. Who was she?
When passion triumphs
In addition to arts and crafts from the Far East, works by Polish artists, French prints and other valuable objects, the collection of Feliks Jasieński – also known as Manggha – includes Gustav Vigeland’s sculpture which depicts a kissing couple.
A few words about the stained glass windows
When visiting the Gallery of 20th-Century Polish Art in the NMK, we come across enormous drawings, measuring almost 4.5 and 7 meters, created in watercolour, gouache and pastel techniques. These monumental designs were authored by Stanisław Wyspiański and Józef Mehoffer.