Włodzimierz Tetmajer

Włodzimierz Tetmajer (1862–1923) was a Polish painter, writer, and political activist of the Young Poland movement, celebrated for vivid scenes of village life in Bronowice (now part of Kraków), where he settled after marrying a peasant woman in 1890. The Bronowice setting and Tetmajer's peasant marriage inspired Stanisław Wyspiański's landmark play Wesele (The Wedding, 1901). Tetmajer served in the first Polish parliament after independence in 1918.

Tetmajer painted with bold decorative color, flattened pictorial planes, and frieze-like processional compositions in the Young Poland decorative manner. His palette favors saturated peasant-textile reds, blues, and greens.

Tetmajer made Bronowice a defining site of Polish Young Poland visual and literary culture and shaped early-twentieth-century Polish peasant painting.