Jan Skotnicki “Shepherd Dogs” 1958
Description
Oil on board, signed and dated lower right “JAN SKOTNICKI 1958”.
Framed: 117x97 cm (100x80 cm)
Jan Skotnicki (Bobrowniki 1876 - 1968 Podkowa Leśna) Polish painter, visual artist, political activist, and inspector of artistic and vocational education at the Department II of Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts at the Ministry of Art and Culture in 1919. In 1898–1898, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where he was a student of Jan Ciągliński and Léon Bakst. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Jacek Malczewski, Teodor Axentowicz, Leon Wyczółkowski, and Józef Mehoffer, and then in 1904–1905, studying in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. His work encompasses both oil and watercolor techniques. In addition to paintings, he drew and created graphic works, including Young Poland figural scenes with historical and military themes, as well as landscapes. In later years, he expanded his oeuvre to include portrait painting. In 1906, he held his first solo exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts, and in 1910, he exhibited his work at the General Exhibition of Polish Art in Lviv. Two further major exhibitions of Jan Skotnicki's work were held at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in 1913 and 1918.
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