O książkach rysunkowych Stanisława Wyspiańskiego
About Stanisław Wyspiański’s sketbooks

Summary/Abstract: Young Stanisław Wyspiański’s sketchbooks from the period between 1876–1891 are a valuablesource of information on the artist’s art education and early works. 14 folders of drawings andnotes preserved to this day document the development of Wyspiański’s talent — from earlysketches, to copies of masterpieces of Polish and foreign art, studies of Dürer’s and Schongauer’s works, to field inventories of monuments in the Ukraine, in the Opoczno region and inLesser Poland, to the results of his research and artistic journeys across Southern and WesternEurope. Due to the handy, provisional character of Wyspiański’s sketchbooks, a number ofthem did not stand the test of time, whereas others are incomplete or in a poor shape. Thetwo best preserved sets of drawing folders are the ones saved by Janina Stankiewiczowa, theartist’s aunt, and the ones bought by Stanisław Tomkowicz, a Galician conservator-restorer. The complicated history of the archives resulted in their dispersion in the collections ofa number of museums and private persons: the National Museum in Kraków, the Jagiellonian University Museum, or the National Museum in Warsaw. The article is a review ofWyspiański’s sketchbooks available in the public domain, it presents how the drawing foldersemerged and places them in the context of the artist’s activity

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