SITKOWSKA M., LISZKA E. - Władysław Skoczylas - master of Paweł Steller. [exhibition catalog].

Author: SITKOWSKA Maryla, LISZKA Ewa

Title: Władysław Skoczylas - master of Paweł Steller

• Place of issue: Chelm
• Year of publication: 2014
• Publisher: Museum of the History of Katowice
• Number of pages: 68
• Illustrations, maps: numerous color and black and white illustrations
• Size: 29,5 cm
• Binding: publisher's soft
• Condition: very good
• ISBN: 9788364356018

Description:

Thematic album on the exhibition "Władysław Skoczylas - the master of Paweł Steller" at the Museum of History of Katowice from 2014. The then presentation of their work was prepared on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the master's death and the 40th anniversary of the death of his student.

Władysław Skoczylas

(1883 Wieliczka - 1934 Warsaw) began his artistic path at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1901. After graduating from it in 1904, he began his studies at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts under professors Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski. His works from the period of his studies already betrayed his emerging talent, but it was not until the so-called Zakopane period that he won the first prize in the First Henryk Grohman Graphic Competition in 1911 for his etching Head of an Old Highlander. In 1913 Skoczylas's first woodcuts were created, one of which, Head of a Highlander, won 1st prize in the 2nd Grohman Competition. The artist's fascination with highland culture and folk art translated into outstanding woodcuts collected in Teka zbójnicka (1914-1919) and Teka podhalańska (1914-1922). He was a passionate educator and social activist. In 1918 he settled permanently in Warsaw, where he took a position as a professor of drawing at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1920 he was appointed director of the Municipal School of Decorative Arts, and two years later he was entrusted with the chair of the Department of Graphic Arts at the School of Fine Arts (soon renamed the Academy), where his outstanding student was Pawel Steller. He was the initiator and co-founder of the art group "Rhythm" (1922), and also initiated the formation of a group of artists called the Association of Graphic Artists "Rhythm" (1925). In 1930-1931 he served as director of the Art Department at the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment.

He presented his works at many exhibitions at home and abroad from 1903 to 1934. He received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, a bronze medal at the International Exhibition of Art Accompanying the Olympics in Amsterdam in 1928, and the Grand Gold Medal at the General National Exhibition in Poznań in 1929. Posthumously, he was awarded the Officer's Cross and Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

The exhibition "Wladyslaw Skoczylas - Master of Pawel Steller" is a unique opportunity to admire the Master's woodcuts, drawings, watercolors and designs, but also to trace how under the guidance of this outstanding artist the talent of "our" Pawel Steller was shaped and developed, and how the personality of the Teacher influenced the Student.