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THE FOURTH POLISH BARD

THE FOURTH POLISH BARD

Stanisław Wyspiański 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907.

He  was a Polish playwright, poet and painter, as well as interior and furniture designer.

As a writer, he created a series of national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement.

“The Wesele” (The Wedding) lifted Wyspianski from a status of a quite  successful artist into a national dramatist. The Wesele (The Wedding) drama described the contemporary situation of Poland  under partition and showed a picture of its society. Worth noting is the fact that  as  the play  it was staged in the Municipal  Theatre of Kraków.

As a painter he created pastel drawings, oil-paintings,  portraits and self-portraits, graphic art , illustration, designes of stained glass windows and paintings.

Together with his friend  Józef Mehoffer, Wyspianski designed 36 stained glass windows  for the Mariacki Church in Kraków  and Wyspiański himself designed  amazing stained glass windows and polychromes for the Franciscan Church in Kraków , known as the most colorful church in our city!

Projects  of stained glass windows depicting,  King Kazimierz the Great , Prince Henryk Pobożny and Saint Stanisław, Wyspiański created for  the Wawel Cathedral  but  these were never placed there  as  being  recognized too avant-garde as for those days  , finally  all the 3  appeared  in  their whole beauty in the Wyspiański 2000 Pavilion. (2005–2007)

Stanisław Wyspiański was one of the most prominent artists of his time in Poland and  unofficially, he became  the Fourth Polish Bard (in addition to the earlier Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński).

I wish someday , when you come to Kraków, I will show you all of his works of art 🙂

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