From June 27, 2025, the Hermitage Foundation will be presenting 100 masterpieces from the years 1840 to 1914 in its summer exhibition, thanks to an extraordinary partnership with the National Museum in Warsaw.
The 19th century was a crucial century in the country's long history - since it disappeared as an independent state in favor of Russia, Austria and Prussia - and was a century of struggle in Poland by artists, writers and musicians to keep alive the peculiarities, traditions and language of a nation. By depicting medieval history and the great monarchs, but also by honoring their landscapes, the rural world, folklore and mythological stories, the painters, who lacked a national academy, created a unique iconography to celebrate the independent Poland whose return they were preparing. They were often trained at the academies in Munich, Paris or St. Petersburg and also took part in the transnational exchanges that enriched 19th century European art.
June 27 to November 9, 2025
https://fondation-hermitage.ch/de/
Julian Falat - Winter landscape with a river and a bird, 1913, © and photo: National Museum in Warsaw
