Kazimierz SICHULSKI, CHAPEL DESIGN

Watercolor, gouache, paper, 126 x 88 cm, signed l.g.: Sich 924, p.d.: Project of an underground chapel forged in rock salt.

He was a pupil of Leon Wyczółkowski, Józef Mehoffer and Stanisław Wyspiański during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1900-1908. He also studied abroad, including Vienna and Paris. From 1920-1930, he taught at the Lviv State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry, and then spent nine years as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. His work was dominated by Hutsul themes; weddings, the return of newlyweds, shepherdesses, and folk scenes in fairy tales. He produced numerous caricatures for magazines and in Michalik's Den, highlighting the vices of well-known figures from the Krakow artistic world and Galician politics. He was also known for his numerous landscapes, still lifes, religious scenes, historical paintings, mosaic and stained glass designs. He was characterized by painterliness, vitality, boldness of line and color. His works are in museum collections in Krakow, Warsaw and Lodz.