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Established in 1985, the Zderzak Gallery in Cracow features artworks by Polish modern classics and European old masters. The latter group mostly comprises Italian panels from the fourteenth century and Florentine baroque masters, but also includes sixteen Dutch and Flemish paintings. The oldest among them is the Adoration of the Child, which was created in Ghent in the fifteenth century using the Flemish Primitive painting style.
The mystical nocturne St. Christopher by Jan Wellens de Cock (1480-1570) from Antwerp and the Bruges painting Mourning from Adriaen Isenbrandt’s (1480-1551) studio, are also part of the Zderzak collection. Moreover, the gallery has nine paintings by Quiringh van Brekelenkam (1622-1669) in its collection, including the masterpiece Der Kannekijker (1664). The gallery organized the first solo exhibition of his works and published the corresponding catalogue Human Warmth in 2023.
Also noteworthy are Pieter de Neyn’s (1597-1639) spring landscape, with its cool tones and the inversion of the lights of heaven and earth, as well as Escape into Egypt by Lodewijk de Vadder (1605-1655), with the Sonian Forest at sunset, and Tobias and the Angel by Pieter Mulier the Younger (1637-1701).
Jan Michalski, Director (July 2024)