Gallery of Painting and Sculpture
Gallery of Painting and Sculpture (in the main building of the museum) features an outstanding collection of Polish coffin painting – a phenomenon of the Polish Sarmatian culture of the 17th and 18th centuries – and the art of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) period – stretching from the late 19th to the early 20th century, with extensive collections of its outstanding exponents, such as Olga Boznańska, Józef Chełmoński, Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Stanisław Wyspiański, and Wojciech Weiss. The Gallery also boasts the richest collection of European paintings among Polish museums, with notable collections of works from the Italian Renaissance and Spanish Baroque, German Romanticism and late Impressionism. The exhibition of contemporary Polish art, composed of works by painters, sculptors, photographers and new media artists, on the other hand, introduces the most important artistic themes of the 2nd half of the 20th century and the beginning of our century, with extensive presentations of outstanding artists such as Tadeusz Kantor and Jerzy Nowosielski.