Stanislaw CZAJKOWSKI (1878-1954), Sketches from Monnickendam

pencil, crayon, paper, 25 x 35 cm,
Signed l.d.: Monnikendam 1916.


Stanislaw CZAJKOWSKI (1878-1954)
Painter, pupil of W. Gerson, from 1896-1903 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of J. Unierzyski, J. Malczewski, L. Wyczółkowski, J. Mehoffer and briefly (1906-1907) with J. Stanislawski. He supplemented his studies in Munich and Paris. In 1907 he visited Italy. During the First World War he stayed in Holland. In 1926 he settled in Warsaw, where he was a professor at the School of Fine Arts. He was a member of the TAP "Art." The artist traveled extensively in Poland and Ukraine. His most common subjects were motifs of small towns, rural genre scenes, vast landscapes, initially maintained in vivid tones of broad color patches, which became muted over time. "The artist felt he was the heir of those Polish artists, realists and symbolists, who depicted native landscapes immersed in silvery, diffused light, painted landscapes with nostalgically stretched horizontal lines and large planes of fields, lowland and hilly, modest, sometimes even poor." (Irena Kossowska, Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/stanislaw-czajkowski).