page_title: Regional Museum "Leon Wyczółkowski"
section_title: Graphics department
hierarchical_section_title: Regional Museum "Leon Wyczółkowski" / Museum collections / Graphics department
context_page_description: The Regional Museum "Leon Wyczółkowski" is an ensemble of cultural institutions which have been first created in 1923 in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland.
context_section_description: Location: Leon Wyczółkowski's house
  The section was created in 1982. It contains approximately 13000 exhibits in several collections: old and contemporary Polish graphics, foreign graphics, bookplates, applied graphics, drawings and monotypings.
  The largest section is the collection of Polish contemporary graphics (after 1945). A vast majority of displays come from Kraków, Warsaw, Poznań, Bydgoszcz and Toruń, to a lesser extent from Wrocław, Katowice, Łódź, Gdańsk or Lublin.
  Graphics from the Polish interwar period include works of Kraków and Warsaw art schools as well as Poznań's, Lviv's and Vilnius's. The oldest collections comprise works by 19th-century Polish artists: woodcuts and lithographs from Warsaw, Lviv and Vilnius.
  The collection of foreign graphics covers mainly works by German, French and English artists from the 16th to the 20th century. Graphic charts, drawings and sketches are exhibited, in particular by authors like Walter Leistikow from Bydgoszcz, involved in the Berlin Secession art movement.
  As long as drawings are concerned, an extensive collection of Bydgoszcz artists is represented. In addition, one can appreciate works of outstanding Polish painters, such as Piotr Michałowski, Jan Matejko and Maksymilian Piotrowski (authors associated with Bydgoszcz) and contemporary artists including, inter alia, Jan Cybis, Tymon Niesiołowski or Edward Dwurnik.
caption: Portrait of Wiktoria Kosińska, by Jan Matejko (1859)
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