Colors of change: Polish painting in Sopot

Luiza Poreda, 4 August 2020

The list of artists whose paintings can be seen at this exhibition at the State Art Gallery in Sopot is impressively long. Among them: Olga Boznańska, Julian Fałat, Tadeusz Makowski, Stanisław Baj, Jacek Malczewski, Antoni Starowieyjski, Henryk Stażewski, Wojciech Weiss, Leon Wyczółkowski, Leon Chwistek, Tymon Niesiołowski, Jonasz Stern and Władysław Strzemiński. Krzysztof Musiał’s collection, which will be on display in the second half of August in Sopot, is undoubtedly one of the most valuable Polish private collections. When Musial began to build this collection, he probably did not realize how large it would be or how spectacular it would be. The impressive list of names and these Polish paintings is quite impressive, because among them we can find Polish paintings by, among others Matejko, Gerson, Fałat, Stanisławski, Boznańska, Wyspiański and Weiss.

 

 

The exhibition “Colors of Transformation” consists of a total of 170 objects of Polish painting that show the work of the most flagship artists from the collection of Krzysztof Musiał. In this exhibition, which we will see at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Polish paintings will be shown by combining common artistic threads, showing the richness of solutions and artistic styles.

As the collector Krzysztof Musiał recalls, the first acquired work was one of Nikifor’s watercolors. These modest beginnings had a surprising continuation. For many years, the collector has been sharing his collections with lovers of Polish painting.

 

Art after 1945:

Stanisław Baj, Miłosz Benedyktowicz, Tadeusz Brzozowski, Tomasz Ciecierski, Jan Cybis, Józef Czapski, Jan Dobkowski, Tadeusz Dominik, Wojciech Fangor, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Stefan Gierowski, Ryszard Grzyb, Maria Jarema, Paweł Kałużyński, Aleksander Kobzdej, Łukasz Korolkiewicz, Grzegorz Kozera, Edward Krasiński, Jan Lebenstein, Zbysław Maciejewski, Jarosław Modzelewski, Artur Natch- Samborski, Jerzy Nowosielski, Teresa Pągowska, Piotr Potworowski, Jacek Sempoliński, Kajetan Sosnowski, Antoni Starowieyski, Henryk Stażewski, Jonasz Stern, Marcin Stosik, Władysław Strzemiński, Alina Szapocznikow, Leon Tarasewicz, Tomasz Tatarczyk, Rafał Wilk, Ryszard Winiarski, Andrzej Wróblewski

Art before 1945:

Wacław Borowski, Olga Boznańska, Józef Brandt, Leon Chwistek, Bolesław Cybis, Irena Dybowska, Eugeniusz Eibisch, Henryk Epstein, Julian Fałat, Wojciech Gerson, Leopold Gottlieb, Gustaw Gwozdecki, Alina Halicka, Henryk Hayden, Vastimil Hofman, Alfons Karpiński, Roman Kramsztyk, Konrad Krzyżanowski, Tadeusz Makowski, Rafał Malczewski, Jacek Malczewski, Louis Marcoussis, Jan Matejko, Zygmunt Meneks, Piotr Michałowski, Jacek Mierzejewski, Mela Muter, Elie Nadelman, Tymon Niesiołowski, Józef Pankiewicz, Józef Podkowiński, Andrzej Pronaszko, Jan Rubczak, Hanna Rudzka- Cybisowa, Marcin Samlicki, Zygmunt Schreter, Jan Stanisławski, Stanisław Szukalski, Władysław Ślewiński, Zygmunt Waliszewski, Eugeniusz Waniek, Wacław Wąsowicz, Joachim Weingart,Wojciech Weiss, Marek Włodarski, Jerzy Wolf, Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański

The State Art Gallery in Sopot, August 15 – November 22, 2020