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The Hutten-Czapski family is a magnate family of merit for Kraków and the National Museum. They came from Pomerania, and later from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1903, the Hutten-Czapski family donated a beautiful palace at Józefa Piłsudskiego Street to the National Museum. On the façade of the building

Józef Czapski was a writer and painter. He was born in 1896 in Prague and died in 1993 in Maisons Laffitte near Paris. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He fought in the Polish-Bolshevik war and

Emeryk Hutten-Czapski was a numismatist count and collector. He was born in 1828 in Stańków, Belarus, and died in 1896 in Kraków. He studied in St. Petersburg. In 1863 he became the governor of Veliky Novgorod, and later the deputy governor of St. In 1879 he settled in his hometown

It was founded in Krakow in April 1908 by Wojciech Kossak. In her opinion, it was to prove to the world that apart from the art society, there are also other groups appointed to represent Polish painting in the universal movement. The first exhibition of the “Zero” Group was opened

The painter, born in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska in 1841, died in Kraków in 1922. He graduated from primary school in Kalwaria and Wadowice. He learned drawings himself, then at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1870, he received a government scholarship to travel to Vienna, where he studied drawing. He was

Bookseller, lover of old Krakow, collector. Born in 1783 in Kęty, died in 1868 in Kraków. In 1797 he moved from Kęty to Kraków and he stayed here. For 20 years he worked in Antoni Grobel’s bookshop, in 1818 he established his own bookstore and antiquarian bookstore on Grodzka Street

The painter, born in Drohobycz in 1856, died in Kraków in 1879, was the most talented of his brothers, who were all painting artists. In 1869 he studied at the studio of Michał Godlewski in Lviv, from 1871 he studied in Vienna, from 1874 at the Krakow School of Fine

Key Facts • Polish sculptor born in 1835 in Méry-sur-Cher, France, died in Paris in 1909 • Grandson of legionnaire and poet Cyprian Godebski (1765-1809) • Professor of sculpture at the St. Petersburg Academy (1860s-1870s) and later at the Warsaw Drawing Class (1875-1888) • Member of the French National Academy

Benedictine monk living at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries. It is unknown where he came from, and where he did his studies. Probably in 1111 Gall was at the court of Emperor Henry V, from there he traveled to Poland and began working in the office of

Poet, translator, born in 1905 in Warsaw and buried there in 1953. He studied classical and English philology. He collaborated with magazines such as “Cyrulik Warszawski” or “Prosto z mostu” and others. He spent the war in prisoner-of-war camps. He returned to Poland, to Krakow in 1946 and lived here