The exhibition Jan Stanisławski and his students

The exhibition Jan Stanisławski i jego uczniowie (Jan Stanisławski and his students) was created for lovers of landscape painting and art of the Young Poland period. It presents a collection donated in 2021 by actor Leonard Pietraszak and his wife Wanda to the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz. It consists of 57 oil paintings, including works by Jan Stanislawski and other artists representing the landscape painting trend, including Wlastimil Hofman, Stanisław Kamocki, Stefan Filipkiewicz, Alfons Karpiński and Antoni Procajłowicz. These artists painted mainly outdoors, inspired by landscapes from various regions of Poland. They mastered to perfection the ability to depict the beauty and harmony of nature in a synthetic and atmospheric way. They often painted at dusk to fully convey the uniqueness of nature and its elements in the light of the setting sun. They used a rich palette of intense colours.The exhibition also includes a portrait of the donors, painted by the painter-colourist Jan Szancenbach in 1990.