Stanisław Wyspiański was a renowned Polish painter, writer and poet born in 1869 in Krakow. He showed early artistic talent and received guidance from famous painter Jan Matejko. Wyspiański studied art in Krakow and traveled extensively in Europe to further his skills. He married in 1900 and had four children, painting many portraits of his family. Wyspiański was a professor at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts and produced a prolific body of work including paintings, drawings, stained glass windows and more before his death in 1907.

1. Stanisław Wyspiański
Great Polish painter, writer and poet

2.  Stanisław Wyspiański was born on 15
January 1869 in Krakow.

3. His father was an artist.
 His father, Franciszek Wyspiański, was a
sculptor. His mother’s name was Maria
Rogowska. She died when her son Stanisław
was only 7.
Franciszek Wyspiański’s work

4.  Stanisław was adopted by his aunt Joanna
Stankiewiczowa and her husband Kazimierz when
his father was not able to take care of the son.

5. He met a great painter
 Wyspiański became acquainted with an
outstanding painter Jan Matejko, who
was a frequent visitor at Stankiewicz’s
home. Matejko soon recognized that the
boy had artistic talent and gave him the
first artistic guidance.

6.  Wyspiański attended Saint
School Anne’s Secondary School.The
school was unique for several
reasons. Firstly, although Polish
language was forbidden in
educational institutions under
foreign rule, the lectures in Saint
Anne’s Gymnasium were
delivered in Polish. Secondly, the
teacher’s goal was to equip the
students with a thorough
knowledge of Polish history and
literature.

7.  In 1887 Wyspiański enrolled in
the Philosophy Department at the Jagiellonian
University and the School of Fine Arts in Kraków.
While studying at the University, he attended lectures
in art, history and literature. Jan Matejko, the dean of
the School of Fine Arts soon recognized
Wyspiański’s talent and asked him to join in the
creation of a polychrome inside the Mariacki Church in
Krakow.

8. Traveller
 The years 1890-1895 were devoted to travelling.
Wyspiański visited Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Prague
and France.
 The stay in France was regarded to be the major point in
his artistic life. He studied at the private atelier Academie
Colarossi.

9. He got married.
 In 1900 Wyspiański married the mother
of his four children Teodora Pytko.

10. He was a professor.
 In 1906 Wyspiański became a professor of
the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, he was
also a member of the City Council.

11. Modernizm
 In August 1894 he
returned to Kraków,
where he got involved in
the modernist movement.
It was then he designed
and partially made
a polychrome for
the Franciscan Church that
was composed
of flowery, geometrical and
heraldic motifs.

12. Wyspiański’s artistic output is very rich.
 He made o lof of drawings, sketch-books, oil-
paintings, pastel drawings, portraits and self-
portraits, designs of stained glass windows
and paintings, illustrations, graphic art. and
plans of furniture. He also created a
herbarium by drawing plants. Most frequently
he was using the technique of pastel. He made
o lot of portraits of his children.

13. Self-portraits

14. Portraits
‘Portrait of the artist’s wife with
pelargoniums’
Motherhood,pastel

15. Some portraits devoted to
motherhood

16. Children’s portraits
‘Sleeping Stas’ ‘A girl with a vase’ ‘Portrait of Helen’, pastel
‘Portrait of Miss Sternbach’ ‘Portrait of Luisa ‘Sleeping Stas’
Parenska’, pastel

17. Children’s portraits
Portrait of Mietek ‘Sleeping Mietek’ ‘A girl with blue eyes’
‘A girl with a red hat”

18. Pastel Drawings
‘ A view of Kościuszko Mound’
‘A girl’
‘A portrait of Liza Pareńska’
A portrait of Lady’

19. Watercolour
‘Poppies and cornflowers’
‘Roses”

20. Graphic
‘Flower’
‘Appolin’s head’
‘Irises,

21. Cryon on paper
‘Portrair of Dagna Przybyszewska’ ‘Head of a girl’

22. Sketch-books

23. Oil paintings
Slef-portrait of Stanisław
Wyspianski
‘Verandah’
‘Planty Park at Dawn’

24. Polychrome

25. Stained glass windows
‘Madonna with a Child’ ‘Mallows’ God the Creator

26. Landscapes
‘Mulchs’, pastel ‘The landscape of Rudawa”
‘Near the water’ pastel
‘Winter’

27.  Wyspiański died on 28 November 1907 and
was buried in the Crypt of the Distinguished in
the Skałka Church in Kraków.

28. Prepared by
Pupiuls at Primary School No 5,
Bielsk Podlaski,
Poland