Lecture: “Nicolae Grigorescu and the Barbizon Painters”

June 13, 2025, 11.00 am

Join us for a lecture in the series Mature to Art, dedicated to the work of Romanian artist Nicolae Grigorescu and other painters from the Barbizon School.

Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) is one of the most famous Romanian painters of the 19th century. His work was strongly influenced by French art, especially the work of the Barbizon School, a group of artists who developed a new approach to landscape painting. Grigorescu studied in Paris and belonged to the Barbizon milieu, drawing numerous inspirations from it. At the same time, he formed his own artistic language. He was an artist who contributed to the modernization of Romanian art and transplanted the ideas of realism and impressionism to his native soil. The lecture will provide an opportunity to learn more about the artistic achievements of Nicolae Grigorescu, but also about the work of other painters who formed the Barbizon school, such as Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau and Charles-François Daubigny.

The Mature to Art meetings, led by art historian and long-time ICC associateDr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, are aimed at adult audiences, with a particular focus on mature audiences. The lectures analyze issues related to art history and culture in relation to the issues presented in the exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandor”. This is an excellent opportunity for discussion and a deeper understanding of the presented artworks and their context.

The event is held in a hybrid form: stationary at the headquarters of the International Cultural Centre and online via the Zoom platform.

Participation in the lectures is free of charge.

Duration is approximately 60 minutes.

The lecture will be held in Polish.

To receive a link to participate in the online meeting, please send your application to the following email address: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. Studied art history at Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Graduate of the interdisciplinary study program Environment-Technology-Society (UJ). Author of scholarly articles on 20th century art and architecture and publications in exhibition catalogs and journals. Co-editor of an anthology of image/body texts and the publication “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific program “Exercising Modernity” (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral thesis being prepared at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University, she is conducting research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.

The exhibition “One eye laughs, the other cries. Art from Romania in the Collection of Ovidiu Şandora” is co-organized by the International Cultural Centre in Krakow and the Romanian Cultural Institute and runs from March 8 to July 20, 2025.

Event within the framework of the Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025

The Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025 is organized by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Romanian Institute of Culture, on the Romanian side, and by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Bucharest, on the Polish side.

For details, write to warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl or call 12 42 42 860.

The offer is under the auspices of the monthly magazine “Voice of the Senior”.

We would like to inform you that during classes, workshops, meetings, gallery lessons, lectures, photos may be taken for the needs of the International Cultural Centre in Cracow (including, among others, for documentation and information on the ICC website and on the ICC profiles on Facebook and Instagram). If you do not agree to this, please inform us in advance. Photos may include images of people participating in the classes and images of works made during the classes. Failure to provide written information to the Exhibition Center before the start of the classes is tantamount to consenting to the International Cultural Center in Krakow's use of the photos mentioned above.