The Stanisław Wyspiański monument is located on the square in front of the National Museum in Krakow. The monument was built in the 1980s. The best comment will be the memory of the monument's implementation by the author himself: - Literary experts speak differently about Stanisław Wyspiański, I have even heard the word "graphomaniac" a few times. I will not comment on such an assessment, after a certain level of expression the discussion ends and the gossip begins. If it were up to me, I would have built a beautiful monument to him while I was still studying at the Academy. He had a wonderful idea with Wesel. He preserved the three classic unities of time, place and action, and at the same time told the entire history of Poland. In a drunken vision, ghosts from different places and times appear to guests and express significant thoughts. And that's brilliant. Then, when he was writing his "Warsaw" dramas - Warszawianka, November Night - a painting competition was announced in Warsaw. He went to see the Royal Castle and also visited Łazienki, where the figures of ancient gods stand. This caught his imagination. November Night is the second of his great ideas. He recalled: "I sculpted various characters from these dramas, he rises above them.
I couldn't personally supervise the completion of the work on the monument, as I was working in Algiers at the time, and there was martial law. I came back and saw that they had dug the monument into the ground next to the National Museum. It remains practically unfinished and has a poorly made plinth. All sketches were created with the intention of placing it on Szczepański Square, I designed an appropriate model and it should be placed there. The issue of the foundations of the church of St. Stephen's Church, demolished in the 19th century, supposedly had to be uncovered, now they are going to build underground parking lots in the square in front of the Museum and they are wondering where to put Wyspiański... No one from the city authorities even called me, even just to ask for my opinion. in this case. I'm afraid that in the end the monument will get lost somewhere and die. There is some record of supposedly non-existent censorship against this poet... His fault, why did he tell the truth? Some people feel the truth as if it were pouring salt into their eyes. It is difficult, very difficult to free yourself from hypocrisy; This type of freedom is symbolized by Wyspiański for me."