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DOI Artikel:Ławniczakowa, Agnieszka: In the Mirror of a Well: On Jacek Malczewski's self-portraits
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18904#0058
14. Jacek Malczewski, Thanotos, ca. 1911, Poznań, Muzeum Narodowe (Photo. Poznań, Muzeum
Narodowe)
sciousness found artistic cxprcssion in, among olhcr works, self-portraits and metaphorical
represcntations of artists revealing the extremc naturę of their role ranging from that of a prophet
to that of a fool, from Christ to one excommunicated, from an innocent child to a whore. In each
of these guises, the costume serves to bring out generał rathcr than individual ąualities.
Malczewski, the child of his times, while partaking of the consciousness of the period, made
use of what had been done, at the same time enriching the repertory of symbolic manifestations.
He shows himself in the guise of various characters and in various costumes: as Orpheusl leading
Eurydice out of the nether world26, as the somewhat ambiguous St. Francis blessing alltheforees
of naturę27, as the biblical Tobias the father cured from blindness28, at times as the prophet
Ezekiel in the ominous trance of revelation29, several times under the guise of Christ, in that
also in the triptych Tribute Money, striking for the artist's triple embodiment, whose rich symbolic
26. Partrail of Notary Kosiński and Self-portrait, 1921, Poznań, Muzeum Narodowe, inv. n°. Mp 2291.
27. Sl. Francis, 1908. Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe, inv. n°. MP 1182 MNW.
28. Tobiasand the Moirai or The Cure of Tobias, 1912. Poznań, Muzeum Narodowe, iav. n°. Mp 1391.
29. Field of Bones, 1919. Łódź, Muzeum Sztuki, inv. n°. MS (SP) M 424.
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Narodowe)
sciousness found artistic cxprcssion in, among olhcr works, self-portraits and metaphorical
represcntations of artists revealing the extremc naturę of their role ranging from that of a prophet
to that of a fool, from Christ to one excommunicated, from an innocent child to a whore. In each
of these guises, the costume serves to bring out generał rathcr than individual ąualities.
Malczewski, the child of his times, while partaking of the consciousness of the period, made
use of what had been done, at the same time enriching the repertory of symbolic manifestations.
He shows himself in the guise of various characters and in various costumes: as Orpheusl leading
Eurydice out of the nether world26, as the somewhat ambiguous St. Francis blessing alltheforees
of naturę27, as the biblical Tobias the father cured from blindness28, at times as the prophet
Ezekiel in the ominous trance of revelation29, several times under the guise of Christ, in that
also in the triptych Tribute Money, striking for the artist's triple embodiment, whose rich symbolic
26. Partrail of Notary Kosiński and Self-portrait, 1921, Poznań, Muzeum Narodowe, inv. n°. Mp 2291.
27. Sl. Francis, 1908. Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe, inv. n°. MP 1182 MNW.
28. Tobiasand the Moirai or The Cure of Tobias, 1912. Poznań, Muzeum Narodowe, iav. n°. Mp 1391.
29. Field of Bones, 1919. Łódź, Muzeum Sztuki, inv. n°. MS (SP) M 424.
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