Key Facts Polish sculptor and artist (1904-1977), son of renowned artist Ludwik Puget Youngest participant in the Wielkopolska and Silesian Uprisings while still a student Studied at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Paris under Emil A. Bourdelle Active member of multiple artistic associations including "Rzeźba" and
Key Facts • Born in 1877 in Kraków, died in 1942 in Oświęcim during Nazi occupation • Multidisciplinary artist – sculptor, art historian, critic, and cabaret performer • Co-founder of the Literary Circle and member of Polish Artists Society "Sztuka" from 1897 • Art critic who wrote influential articles criticizing
Key Facts • French noble family that arrived in Poland with Queen Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (Marysieńka Sobieska) • Received Polish indigenate in 1726, officially becoming Polish nobility through legal integration • Elevated to baronial status during the Saxon period (1697-1763) under Augustus II and Augustus III
Architect, economic and social activist, born in St. Petersburg in 1908, died in Krakow in 1980. He studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and became an assistant there, he practiced in Starachowice. In the September campaign in 1939, he fought in the defense of Warsaw as a company
After the fall of the January Uprising, many of its participants settled in Krakow. From the contributions of former insurgents and with the help of the city’s inhabitants, the first Veterans’ Shelter in Poland was created. First, it was located in a house in Zwierzyniec, near the Norbertine convent, but
About Krakow, Krakowians there are many different proverbs, proverbial expressions, the so-called adjectives which Samuel Adalberg carefully noted in his “Book of Polish Proverbs” from 1894. Some of them are presented below: Even if you go to Krakow and the poverty is the same there Civitas Cracovia: buy yourself as
In former Krakow, each journeyman, receiving the title of a master, accepted the city law and was entered into the books of Krakow’s burghers. On this occasion, placing three fingers on the image of Christ Crucified, he made an oath that read: “I … swear to the Lord Almighty God,
Key Facts • Multi-talented artist: Novelist, playwright, essayist, and influential figure in European modernist literature • Berlin period: Studied medicine and architecture while editing the socialist newspaper "Gazeta Robotnicza" (1889-1898)¹ • Kraków connection: Arrived in September 1898, lived on Karmelicka Street (addresses 53 and 31)² • Literary collaboration: Co-edited the
These are basements that extend beyond the foundations of the house, and extend under the sidewalks along the town square houses. In the front walls of these cellars you can clearly see bricked up windows and stone portals. With the help of these cellars, today it is possible to reconstruct
Krakow was surrounded by servant settlements which, as the city developed, became suburbs and finally districts of Greater Krakow. The dispute over jurisdiction in these areas was open and therefore the situation was used by various guild obstacles who were not members of the guilds – they acted outside the