At the end of September, the Louvre-Lens Museum, in cooperation with the National Museum in Warsaw and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, is opening a retrospective of 19th-century Polish painting – the largest ever exhibition of Polish art of that time period in France.
Thanks to prestigious loans from Polish national museums and private collections, the exhibition brings together almost 120 works – dating from between 1840 and 1918 – by the leading representatives of Polish painting, including Jan Matejko, Józef Brandt, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Chełmoński and Olga Boznańska. Organisers and curators of the exhibit paid special attention to the role of painting in creating a national Polish identity, one based on history and a longing for freedom. Learn more.