page_title: Rafał Malczewski
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Rafał Malczewski / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Jacek Malczewski, Portrait of the son Rafał and his wife (1922), Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, PolandPolski: Jacek Malczewski, Portret syna Rafała z żoną (1922), Muzeum im. Jacka Malczewskiego w RadomiuDeutsch: Jacek Malczewski, Porträt des Sohnes Rafał mit seiner Frau (1922), Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, Polen
context_page_description: Rafał Marceli Ludwik Fortunat Józef Malczewski was a Polish landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, author and columnist. He was a noted Tatra mountaineer, skier and populariser of the Tatra Mountains.
context_section_description: He was born in Kraków, four years after his sister, Julia, the son of Maria, nėe Gralewska, and her husband the celebrated Symbolist painter and professor of Fine Art, Jacek Malczewski. He graduated from the Saint Jacek High School in the city. From 1910–1915 he studied at the University of Vienna. He took courses in philosophy, architecture and agronomy. On his return to Kraków he entered the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, and was also apprenticed in his father's studio. In 1915 he began to travel frequently to Zakopane where he spent extensive periods, to climb, ski and paint, until the outbreak of World War II. He joined the local Mountain rescue team, TOPR. However in 1917 on the south face of "Zamarła Turnia" he and his climbing companion, Stanisław Bronikowski, were caught in a climbing accident in which his friend died, while Malczewski clung to a hook all night awaiting rescue.
  In October 1917 he married Bronisława Dziadosz, an English teacher four years his senior and a US citizen of Polish descent who had immigrated into Poland. In November of the same year, their son Krzysztof was born. Despite an unhappy partnership, the couple went on to have a second child, Zofia. Their poor financial situation led to Rafał's artist father helping them out. In 1923 he bought for them a chalet called "Marysin".
  Rafał Malczewski was an associate and friend of a group of artists, musicians and intellectuals who would congregate in the Mountain resort of Zakopane in the early part of the 20th century. They included Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Karol Szymanowski, Kornel Makuszyński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. In 1932 he joined the "Rhythm Association of artists (Stowarzyszenie Artystów Polskich „Rytm”) and was a set designer for productions of Strindberg and Stanisław Witkiewicz at the Formistyczny Theatre in Zakopane. In 1937 he was awarded the "Wawrzyn Akademicki" award from the Polska Akademia Literatury "for services to Polish art". 1938 he donated part of his artistic output to the newly re-opened National Museum of Warsaw to which, several years earlier on account of his material difficulties, he had sold the entirety of his father's work left to him by Malczewski Sr.
caption: Rafał with his wife, Bronia in 1922 painted by his father, Jacek
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