Jan Stanisławski (1860, Olszana, Ukraine – 1907, Kraków), “Child with a Dog”

Provenance
from the historic collection of Colonel Alfons Thoman (b. 1885)
DESA Unicum, December 2022
private collection, Kraków

Exhibited
Wojciech Gerson and His Students, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, summer 1931

Bibliography
Wojciech Gerson and His Students, Guide No. 65, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw 1931, cat. no. 300

Biography
He completed his studies in mathematics at the University of Warsaw and at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. He initially studied painting in Wojciech Gerson’s Drawing Class in Warsaw, and then in Paris in 1884–85 under Carolus–Durand (actually Charles Émile Auguste Durand). He undertook many artistic journeys, including to Italy, Spain, Austria, and the Czech Republic. In 1895, he stayed in Berlin and collaborated with Wojciech Kossak on the creation of the panorama “The Crossing of the Berezina.” In 1897, he settled in Kraków, where he taught landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts. As an instructor in the landscape painting studio, he introduced the method of plein air painting, which gave rise to the development of this genre in Polish art at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a co-founder of the “Sztuka” Society of Polish Artists. He painted primarily small, atmospheric, synthetic landscapes constructed with broad brushstrokes.