1. Jadwiga Maria Kinga Bal of Zaleszczyki, nee Brunicka was a Polish baroness and a lifelong muse of Jacek Malczewski, considered Poland's national painter.
11 Facts About Maria Bal
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Maria Bal served as the live model for a series of his symbolic portrayals of women, as well as nude studies and mythological beings.
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Jadwiga Maria Brunicka was born during the foreign Partitions of Lithuania-Poland to baron Seweryn Brunicki, a Polish land-owner, and his wife Jadwiga Maria Kryspina Zagorska, at their country estate in Zaleszczyki.
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Maria Bal was noted as being exceptionally beautiful by her family.
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One of their daughters, Helena Maria Bal, became a painter in the interwar period.
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From about 1904 to the outbreak of World War I, Maria Bal had an affair with the painter Jacek Malczewski who was 25 years her senior; elected Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1912.
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Maria Bal had met the artist Jacek Malczewski around 1904 while living in Krakow, after her first marriage had come to an end.
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Maria Bal was a star of the local literary society in Krakow.
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Maria Bal was a regular at the gatherings of artists held at the Krakow mansion of Olga Chwistkowa.
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Maria Bal is one of the most revered art models in Poland.
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Maria Bal died on 3 January 1955 in Krakow at the age of 75.