Stanisław Wyspiański

Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907), born in Kraków, the son of a sculptor, was raised by an aunt after his mother's death, and Jan Matejko, a regular visitor to the house, was his first master. A student at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, he worked on the polychromy of St Mary's Church, then, thanks to a scholarship, made several stays in Paris between 1890 and 1894, where he attended the Académie Colarossi and met Gauguin. A painter, and a designer of stained glass and furniture, he married a peasant woman from the surrounding area, Teodora Pytko, in 1900, and died of syphilis in Kraków on 28 November 1907.

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