DECADENTS, PESSIMISTS AND NEO-ROMANTICS, OR, YOUNG POLAND AND BOHEMIANISM IN KRAKOW

The article takes a closer look at the artistic life in Krakow at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Activities of the artists, led by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, and all in the social-café-salon life make it possible to distinguish a completely new kind of bohemianism: exquisite, noble and even aristocratic. Krakow Bohemians comprised of the very elite of the cultural life: renowned artists – mainly professors of the Academy of Fine Arts – prominent actors, talented writers and poets, influential critics. A time of the triumph of the bohemian circle coincided with the era of major exhibitions, shown not only in Krakow, but also in Vienna. Though initially shocking the Galician bourgeois mentality, with time bohemians became more and more influential, promoting a new style and created, at the end Polish modernism.