Stanisław Czajkowski “Winter”
Description
Gouache on cardboard, signed lower right “Stanisław Czajkowski”.
Framed: 38x44 cm (31x37 cm)
Stanisław Czajkowski (Warszawa 1878 - 1954 Sandomierz) – Polish painter, brother of the painter Józef Czajkowski. In the years 1896–1903 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the studios of Jacek Malczewski, Józef Mehoffer and Leon Wyczółkowski. In 1898 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the atelier of Ludwig von Herterich. In the years 1904–1906 in Académie Julian in Paris. After returning to Kraków he continued to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Jan Stanisławski. In 1908 he was a member of the Society of Polish Artists „Sztuka”. Years 1914–1917 he spent in the Netherlands. In 1926 he moved to Warsaw. In the years 1927–1928 he ran the landscape studio the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1950 he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He painted mainly landscapes and village motifs.