Size: 85 x 137.5 cm
signed, dated and inscribed l.d.: 'STANISŁAW CZAJKOWSKI | KRAKÓW 1914'.
on the canvas a paper exhibition sticker of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow and a trace of an unpreserved sticker, on the frame a paper exhibition sticker of the Jacek Malczewski Regional Museum in Radom and a paper sticker of a framing workshop
Origins
DESA Unicum, November 2007
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Józef Brandt - students and friends, Jacek Malczewski District Museum in Radom, December 1998 - July 1999.
First Spring Salon, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, 1914
Literature
Catalog of the Jubilee Exhibition, 1st Spring Salon, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, Cracow 1914, cat. no. 14 (il.), p. 13
Biography
Stanislaw Czajkowski studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1902. At that time, as a young artist, he was admitted to the Society of Polish Artists "Art". He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where his brother Joseph, also a painter and the great and unfulfilled love of Olga Boznanska, lived. While in Paris, he attended the Académie Julian. He made many artistic trips around Europe. He also visited various regions of Poland, as evidenced by landscapes from Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River, Wola Radziszowska, Vilnius or Podhale. He was friends with the most prominent figures of the artistic world, both in Cracow and Paris. He was a participant in the famous wedding of Lucjan Rydel, described by Stanislaw Wyspianski in his drama "The Wedding." Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński identified him with the character of Nosa. The artist came out of the school of Jan Stanislawski, who instilled in him a love of the native landscape. To a certain extent, Czajkowski became a continuator of his master's ideological legacy. He used intense colors and sweeping brushstrokes. He created atmospheric views in which he captured picturesque corners of Poland and beyond. In late 1980 and early 1981, a posthumous exhibition of the artist's works was held within the walls of Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery.
