Description: Of the two works by Merkel purchased by Raczyński in 1906 from the Kraków TPSP, a portrait of a woman painted by the artist at the end of his studies at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts under J. Mehoffer has been preserved to this day. Its linear, Secessionist form shows a great dependence...
Description: Wilhelm List (1864-1918) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Vienna Academy, then the Munich Academy and at the Académie Julian in Paris. From 1898 to 1905 he actively participated in the Vienna “Secession”. He belonged to the so-called “Klimt-Gruppe”. He distinguished himself primarily as a portraitist of relatives or...
Description: Constance from the Lachmans Raczyńska (1834-1874) “Deprived of parental care and peers, since the youngest years she lived her imagination, which was rich and colored with idealism. She avoided people.” [1]. Constance Raczyńska, née Lachman, was the daughter of Jerzy Lachman, a poor soldier of the tsar’s army [2] and Teresa from Potocki from...
Description: Constance Raczyńska from the Potocki family of Podhajec, of the Pilawa (Silver) coat of arms (1783-1852) “The new Lady, energetic and resourceful, introduced the necessary reforms in the life of Rogalin, whose owner did not care about worldly comforts, nor about the kitchen, nor about elegance.” [1]. Constance was born in Tulczyn as the...
Description: A great influence on the formation of Stanisław Wyspiański’s (1869-1907) original and recognizable style was his studies at Jan Matejko’s in Krakow, his travels and his several-year-stay in Paris with his friend Józef Mehoffer. The works of Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse Lautrec had a particularly strong impression on him. Sensitized to oil paints,...
Description: Michalina of the Raczyński family of the Nałęcz coat of arms (1768-1790) “We welcomed the most beautiful person imaginable. She had regular features, a gender like a lily and a rose, blond hair down to the ground and a dazzling freshness. Her apparent simplicity masked perfect skill. The childish and affectionate tone that she...
