Stanislaw KAMOCKI (1875-1944), "Landscape with a beehive".

oil, canvas, 70 x 111 cm,
signed l.d. : Skamocki

Painter and printmaker, outstanding landscape painter, one of the most talented students of Jan Stanislawski. From 1891 to 1900 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under F. Cynk, I. Jabłoński, J. Unierzyski, L. Wyczółkowski, J. Malczewski and J. Stanislawski (1897-1900). He was twice on scholarship in Paris (1901/02, 1904/05), visited Italy twice, traveled in Germany and Switzerland. During the First World War he fought in the Legions. After the war he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he ran a school of landscape. He also taught landscape at Harenda in Zakopane. He was a member of the Society of Polish Artists "Art", belonged to the Vienna Secession and the Society of Podhale Art. He participated in foreign art exhibitions, including those in Vienna, Budapest, Venice and Berlin. He usually painted outdoors, his favorite motifs included views of villages near Krakow, the Tatra Mountains and Podhale. In the interwar period, he created a series of still lifes, and during the Second War, Krakow landscapes. The artist painted with broad, flat brushstrokes, the thick, textured paint gave the paintings a kind of material dimension.