Joseph Chelmonski, who is particularly remarkable for his masterly rendering of life in motion. The brothers Max and Alexander Gierymski, both masters of colour, the plein-air painters St. Witkiewicz (who is also an eminent critic), Wl. Tetmajer, an excellent painter of village life, married to a peasant's daughter at Bronowice, near Cracow, Zelechowski, and others, can only be mentioned here. About the middle of the nineteenth century a reaction against positivism set in,
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90. CURTAIN OF CRACOW THEATRE.
(Henryk Siemiradzki.)
which, besides a new current in literature, produced new tendencies in painting too. The works of Arnold Boecklin, Puvis de Chavannes, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, all of them expressing universal emotions of the human mind, and playing on the tenderest chords of the nation's heart, succeeded in securing a recognized position for the new forms and ideas.
In 1895 Julian Falat, the painter of Northern landscape, of vast plains of snow glittering in the sun, and of impenetrable forest
