Stanisław WITKIEWICZ (1851-1915), Mountain landscape with staffage
oil, wooden palette
23 x 14.5 cm
signed at the bottom ST. Witkiewicz
on the reverse inscription: Zakopane 1896
Object with conservation opinion of prof. Dariusz Markowski
Playwright, painter, art theoretician and philosopher. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (1868-1871), and then briefly at the Munich Academy under H. Anschütz. At the end of 1873 he settled in Warsaw where he shared a studio at the Hotel Europejski with J. Chelmonski, A. Chmielowski and A. Piotrowski. In 1884-1890, he collaborated with the positivist magazine Wanderer, which was his tribune in the fight for new art. He wrote monographs of artists. In 1890-1908 he lived in Zakopane where he created the theory and practice of the "Zakopane style." He created many paintings close to naturalism, referring to the January Uprising, painted genre scenes, landscapes (marine and Tatra). He served as a moral authority. His work was overshadowed by his critical activity.
