Who was Matejko? The Pope of Polish art? An illustrator and chronicler of historic events? Or was he rather a great ideologist, the creator of national myths and Poles’ ideas about their own history ...

Artist Jan Matejko is a national hero in his native Poland, where his paintings are a symbol of the universal struggle of liberty. His artworks record seminal moments in Polish and world history.

Matejko first appears within the walls of the Kraków School of Fine Arts long before he took its helm – as a student. In 1852, when he began his studies, the headmaster was Wojciech Korneli Stattler, ...

The painting by Matejko, who is considered the most famous Polish painter of all time, was lost for over a hundred years, before it was rediscovered in 2015 and now made Polish art auction history.

A work by the famous 19th-century Polish painter Jan Matejko is set to be sold at an auction in Warsaw.

Matejko was once fêted throughout Europe but large-scale historical painting has gone out of fashion – which says more about us than about the genre – and the Polish struggle doesn’t ...

Warsaw's Kordegarda gallery has unveiled an exhibition entitled "Jan Matejko: Preliminary Sketches" to mark 185 years since the birth of one of Poland's most prominent painters and to commemorate ...

Gain insight into the auction performance of Matejko Jan . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the artwork ...