ART IN EASTERN EUROPE

Jan Matejko - Portrait of Alfred Potocki 1879

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Jan Matejko (1838-1893) est un peintre polonais. Considéré comme le plus grand peintre historique polonais de tous les temps, il est célèbre pour ses œuvres représentant les grands personnages et événements de l'histoire de la Pologne.

Jan Matejko (1838-1893) was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events.

W. T. Benda

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Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda (1873-1948) est un artiste américain d'origine polonaise.

Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda (1873-1948) was an American painter, illustrator, and designer. He was ethnically Polish.

Aleksander Grodzicki - Praying Jew 1893

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Aleksander Grodzicki (?-1893) est un peintre polonais.

Aleksander Grodzicki (?-1893) was a Polish painter.

Оlga Suvorova - Chess Competition

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Olga Suvorova (1966- ) est une artiste russe.

Olga Suvorova (1966- ) is a Russian painter.

Konstantin Makovsky - Portrait of Countess Maria Mikhailovna Volkonskaya 1905

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Leon Wyczolkowski - Once I Glimpsed 1884

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Leon Wyczolkowski (1852-1936) est artiste peintre et illustrateur polonais. Il est l'un des principaux peintres du mouvement Jeune Pologne, ainsi que le principal représentant du réalisme dans l'art polonais sur cette période.

Leon Wyczolkowski (1852-1936) was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum.

Stanislaw Wyspianski

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Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) est un dramaturge, poète, peintre, metteur en scène, architecte et ébéniste polonais. Il fut l'un des artistes européens les plus prolifiques et remarquables de son époque.

Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement. Wyspianski was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artists of his time in Poland under the foreign partitions. He successfully joined the trends of modernism with themes of the Polish folk tradition and Romantic history.