Dimensions: 36 x 46 cm
Signed l.d.: 'G. Pillati'
Biography
He came from a family of painters. He studied at the Drawing School in the class of Wojciech Gerson. In 1897-1900, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow - for a year under F. Cynk, later under T. Axentowicz, winning numerous awards and medals. From 1901 he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and from 1908 at Simon Hollósy's private school in Munich. After returning to Poland, he settled permanently in Warsaw. He was engaged in pedagogical activities: in 1920-22 he taught drawing at the courses of the Museum of Crafts and Applied Art, in 1923-26 as a professor he taught at the Wojciech Gerson School of Fine Arts. He took an active part in the creative life of Warsaw, and was a member of the jury of the Annual Salon of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. He made his debut in Warsaw, exhibited at the Salon of Aleksander Krywult, later in Czestochowa, Kielce, Krakow, Lublin, Lviv, Lowicz, Lodz, Poznan, Vilnius, Moscow. A small part of the artist's numerous output has survived. He used oil technique, but also made drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayons and watercolor works, achieving interesting color effects. He was interested in portraits, characteristic images, plant studies, architectural views, genre paintings, and especially those with folk themes, which over time became, along with landscape, a kind of calling card of the painter.
