Stanislaw SOBOLEWSKI, Looking at Lethe from the Myths series, 1998

oil, canvas, 93.5 x 122 cm, signed on the back: Stan. Sobolewski 1998.

Studied at the Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University (1971-1976) and at the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Zbigniew Grzybowski (1974-1979). In 1989/90 he was an intern with Prof. Stefan Gierowski at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He cultivates easel painting. Since 1979 he has been affiliated with the present Pedagogical University in Cracow, where he teaches painting and drawing. He received the title of professor in 2000. He has presented his works in many individual and collective exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1982-89 a participant in the Independent Culture movement. His works are in private and public collections, including the National Museum in Cracow, the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow, the Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, in the collections of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, the Museum of Sacred Art "House of the Prayer" Kielce, the City Museum of Vukovar (Croatia).