Kazimierz SICHULSKI (1879-1942), Still Life

Kazimierz SICHULSKI (1879-1942), Still Life

pastel, gouache, paper pasted on cardboard

49 x 66 cm

Signed at top right: Sich 07

Kazimierz Sichulski Between 1900 and 1908, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under J. Mehoffer, L. Wyczółkowski and S. Wyspiański, and then, in 1902 and 1903, at the Kunsgewerbeschule in Vienna under A. von Kelner. While in Paris, he attended the Académie Colarossi. In the winter of 1904/1905, together with F. Pautsch and W. Jarecki, he traveled to the Hutsul region for the first time. It was then that an unusual fascination with rituals, customs and folk costumes was born. In 1907, he settled in Lviv. He was a member of the Society of Polish Artists Art (since 1905) and the Vienna Hagenbund (since 1907). From 1920 to 1930 he taught at the Lviv State School of Decorative Arts and Art Industry, and from 1930 to 1939 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He repeatedly exhibited his works at TPSP in Cracow. In addition, he participated in exhibitions in Munich (1905), Venice (years: 1907, 1910, 1914, 1932), Rome (years: 1911, 1934), Berlin (years: 1914, 1937), Paris (years: 1923, 1930, 1931), Budapest (1926), Pittsburgh (1926), Helsinki and Stockholm (1927).

Kazimierz Sichulski was a versatile artist, designing stained glass, mosaics, kilims, interiors. He did mural painting, graphics, including book graphics, and drew caricatures. His early works are characterized by Art Nouveau stylistics with soft contours, circulating flat patches of color. Sichulski was an artist of incredible color sensitivity, painting with extraordinary color subtlety. In his later works, the artist gave his paintings a post-impressionist shimmer and reduced the role of the contour