27 June – 09 November 2025

Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne (Switzerland)

 

The exhibition La Pologne rêvée. 100 chefs-d’oeuvre du musée national de Varsovie is a joint project by the National Museum in Warsaw and the Swiss Fondation de l’Hermitage, organized in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The exhibition mainly presents works from the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century—a period of the advent of national art in Poland, which lacked national sovereignty at the time. Following the movements of Historicism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism, artists kept abreast of the latest trends in European art while expressing their attachment to national history. The exhibition focuses on the Romantic myth of native Polish culture, which manifested itself both in Academic and avantgarde painting. Masterpieces by such artists as Olga Boznańska, Konrad Krzyżanowski, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Matejko, Władysław Podkowiński, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Zofia Stryjeńska and Stanisław Wyspiański reveal their understanding of history, their perception of nature, the power of their imagination and their emotional treatment of colour and form. All of this comes together as an extraordinary panorama of Polish art.

curators: Agnieszka Lajus, Agnieszka Bagińska 

 

Exhibition organized by Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne and National Museum in Warsaw in cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

 

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Ilustration: Julian Fałat, Winter landscape with a river and a bird, 1913, National Museum in Warsaw