“In January 1948, a twenty-one year old with several dozen works and participation in two student exhibitions wrote: ‘Every single painter and scholar in Kraków is a husband + ringleader or [party] secretary + lounge lizard + father of the house and head of the family + professional + artist. While my ambition is to be: an old bachelor + artist […]’”

This is Andrzej Wróblewski (b. 1927, Vilnius–d. 1957, Tatra Mountains) – comrade, citizen, communist, candidate for the Party, assistant at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, decorated with the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People’s Poland. Art historian and critic, temporarily a socialist realist. Husband and father. – writes Magdalena Ziółkowska in an essay accompanying the artist’s profile appearing on Małopolska’s Virtual Museums (WMM) website.

Małopolska’s Virtual Museums (WMM)  (www.muzea.malopolska.pl) is a service that makes available over a thousand digitised exhibits from forty museums in Małopolska. These include 3D and 2D images of artworks, as well as texts, audio recordings, and special audio-description recordings for the blind and visually impaired. WMM is a unique initiative, making available numerous resources from multiple Polish museums online in one place.