Description
Gouache, cardboard; 32 X 62 cm ( light frame)
Signed p.d.: JFałat / Nieśwież
Asking price 40000
Estimate 50000 - 60000
Julian FAŁAT
1853 Tuligłowy - 1929 Bystra
Painter and pedagogue - one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, member of Polish and European creative associations and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, repeatedly awarded medals at international exhibitions. He studied painting with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Leon Dembowski at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow (1868-71 and 1881) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Alexander Strähuber and Johan Leonhardt Raab (1877-80). After his studies he spent several months in Rome, in 1884 he was in Paris and Spain, and in 1885 he made a sea voyage around the world. In 1886, while hunting with the Prince Radziwill family in Nesvizh, he met the later German Emperor Wilhelm II, for whom he then worked as a court painter in Berlin in 1886-95. In 1894-96 he collaborated with Wojciech Kossak on the "Berezina" panorama. In 1895 he was appointed director of the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he thoroughly reformed the teaching system, transforming it into a modern Academy. After retiring, he settled in the village of Bystra near Bielsko. An excellent watercolorist, he also painted in oils. In his earlier period, he worked in the realist convention, with time he lightened and enriched his palette, and in watercolors he introduced an overflowing color patch. He became famous as a painter of hunting scenes usually set in winter scenery; he also painted landscapes, rural genre scenes, portraits and urban views.