Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism, though she rejected this label.

The Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" founded in 1897 in Kraków, was a gathering of prominent Polish visual artists from around the turn of the century living under the foreign partitions of Poland. Its main goal was to reaffirm the importance and unique character of Polish contemporary art at a time, when Poland could not exist as sovereign nation.