Rafal Malczewski - Artist Info

About Rafal Malczewski

  • Biography

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    Polish painter and water-colorist, Rafal Malczewski lived in Canada from 1942. He was a landscape painter and representative of the movement of over-stylized, "naive" realism. Born in 1892 in Krakow, died in 1965 in Montreal.

    Between 1910 and 1915 Malczewski studied philosophy, architecture, and agronomy in Vienna. His father, Jacek Malczewski, a professor at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts, initiated him into the painterly craft. Between 1917 and 1939 the young Malczewski lived in Zakopane, where he was a member of the local artistic and intellectual elite concentrated, among others, around Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz and Karol Szymanowski. He j...

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