Self-portrait of Jan Polak, photo Jan Polak, 1477
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Jan Polak

ID: OS-000598-P/67061

Jan Polak

First name:

Jan

Last Name:

Polak

Nazwisko panieńskie lub używane formy poboczne:

Johannes Polonus, Jan Polack

Date of birth:

1435

Place of birth:

Kraków

Date of death:

1519

Place od death:

Monachium

Age:

Profession:

painter

Biography:

Jan Polak (1435-1519), born in Krakow, late Gothic painter, Munich city painter (from 1485), worked for the city authorities, the princely court, churches and monasteries; selected works: three retables for the Blutenburg castle chapel, a cycle of wall paintings in St. Wolfgang's Church in Pipping, wings for the main altar at Weihenstephaner Abbey.