Dimensions: 16 x 21 cm
signed l.d.: 'JAN STANISŁAWSKI'
Inscribed on the reverse in blue crayon: '358 (in circle) T| 123', below in paint: '1688', paper exhibition sticker Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie (Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow) and paper sticker with description with text in ink and red ink: '26. N.8728. | In the Tatra Mountains | price 250 K'.
Provenance
Agra-Art auction house, October 2010
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jan Stanislawski. Posthumous Exhibition, Society of Friends of Fine Arts, Cracow 1907
Jan Stanislawski. Posthumous Exhibition, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, April-May 1907
Literature
Jan Stanislawski. Posthumous Exhibition, exhibition catalog, Society of Friends of Fine Arts, Cracow 1907, pp. nlb. cat. no. 26 (In the Tatra Mountains)
Jan Stanislawski. Posthumous Exhibition, exhibition catalog, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, pp. nlb. cat. no. 26 (In the Tatra Mountains)
Biography
Graduated in mathematics from the University of Warsaw and the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. He initially studied painting at Wojciech Gerson's Drawing Class in Warsaw, then in 1884-85 in Paris with Carolus - Duran (actually Charles Émile Auguste Durand). He made many artistic trips to Italy, Spain, Austria and the Czech Republic, among others. In 1895 he stayed in Berlin and collaborated with Wojciech Kossak on the panorama "Crossing the Berezina". In 1897 he settled in Cracow, where he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts. As a teacher in the landscape studio, he introduced the method of plein-air studies, which gave rise to the development of this genre of painting in Polish art at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a co-founder of the Society of Polish Artists "Art." He painted primarily small, moody, synthetic landscapes built with broad brushstrokes.
