Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski
Jacek Malczewski · 1903
Why it's great
A pale young man in a dark coat stares out as a group of ghostly figures looms behind him, in a dreamlike scene. Malczewski, a Polish Symbolist, painted a young man in a Hamlet-like pose. The picture is about the burden of history. It's a famous image from Polish art.
Where to see it
📍 National Museum in WarsawWarsaw, Poland
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Jacek Malczewski was born in Radom, Poland, and became a leading Symbolist painter. He studied in Kraków and Paris and often painted himself in dreamlike scenes full of Polish folklore and history. He lived in Kraków, where he later taught. He died there in 1929.
