O dwóch pobytach Stanisława Wyspiańskiego na Łemkowszczyźnie
About Stanislaw Wyspiański’s Two Stays in the Lemkivshchyna Region

Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Wyspiański’s works are traditionally associated with Young Poland, belonging axiologically to the world of Western culture and Latin Christianity. Nevertheless, from his early youth the Artist took a keen interest in the Borderlands of the Republic of Poland, as well as the artistic culture of Eastern Christianity. Wyspiański’s familiarity with these issues was brought by a solo trip to Lviv and the surrounding areas, which he took in August 1887. Two years later, unexpectedly and rather accidentally, the Artist, together with Józef Mehoffer, found himself in the Lemko village of Królowa Ruska (today, Królowa Górna), where, during a two-day stay, he made a drawing and descriptive inventory of the seventeenth-century artistic furnishings of the interior of the local church, in addition to holding a consultation with the Lemkos and a Greek Catholic priest on the design of a new iconostasis for the temple. The second of Wyspiański’s stays in the Lemkivshchyna region took place in the summer of 1901, when the Artist and his family lived for five weeks in the Lemko town of Deszno, near Rymanow-Zdrój, in a house for patients that does not exist today. The field research conducted by the author of this article has made it possible not only to verify previous speculations on the question of where the Wyspiański family lived in 1901, but also to gather convincing factual material on the basis of which it is possible today to infer such matters with certainty.

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