Interior of the Leon Wyczółkowski Gallery - Graphic studio

The interior of the room has been decorated in such a way that it is clearly associated with the printmaker's workshop. Objects belonging to the artist are displayed. The furnishings also include a tub for grinding lithographic stone and a press used to obtain prints from a matrix. This press was used by the artist in his studio in Poznań. Wyczółkowski was encouraged to take up graphic art by his close friend from his Krakow period, Feliks Manggha Jasieński. Works in a variety of graphic techniques appeared from 1900. Leon's favourite technique was lithography, but he experimented with practically everything including etching, stoneware, soft varnish. He even tried the little-popular fluoroforte. Because of his artistic path, the prints were painterly in character, and he also repeated previously used motifs in them. The exhibition is also complemented by tools such as styluses, needles, knives or smoothers, which Wyczółkowski made himself or perfected in order to obtain the best possible effects from his work.