Joseph Stachnik, Landscape,

Józef Stachnik, Landscape, watercolor on paper, signed "J. Stachnik". Dimensions with frame: 45 x 38 cm, without frame: 28 x 22 cm.
Jozef Stachnik was born in 1929 in Cracow, Poland. He took up painting since 1966. He practiced techniques: oil and watercolor. He attended painting courses in the studio of Prof. Ludwik Pindel and the Art Knowledge Study, led by Prof. W. Hodys. Verified by the Ministry of Fine Arts as a visual artist in the discipline of painting. In 1993, he completed a 2-year higher course of the section of easel painting and printmaking at the Faculty: Plastic Arts at the Overseas People's University of Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
He was a member of: Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, SPN of Cracow Land, Creative Club of Artists at the Provincial Cultural Center in Cracow, Art and Literary Association in Cracow.
He had more than 70 individual exhibitions and participated in more than 170. collective exhibitions. Winner of many awards and prizes.
Selected individual exhibitions abroad: Folkehøgskolen in Skjeberg and Rammesenteret in Sarpsborg (Norway) - 1990, Löhrerhof Hürth (Germany) - 1996, Kurier Plus Gallery, New York (USA) - 1999, Polish Consulate, New York (USA) - 2000.
Participation in foreign exhibitions: Art Fair, Nuremberg (Germany) - 1987, in Kiev (Ukraine) - 1991, Helene Appel Gallery, Paris - 1996, Polish Culture Festival, New York (USA) - 1999.
Participation in foreign plein-air paintings: Paris, Venice, Assisi, Budapest.
Works in collections: National Museum of the Przemysl Region, Historical Museum of the City of Cracow, Ethnographic Museum in Cracow, District Museum in Tarnow, District Museum in Nowy Sacz, Museum in Chrzanow, Stanislaw Nowakowski Museum in Nieszawa, Prof. Stanislaw Fischer Museum in Bochnia, Regional Museum in Myślenice, H. Ławniczak Regional Museum in Krotoszyn.
Jozef Stachnik died on November 23, 2013 in Cracow. He is buried in the Salwator Cemetery in Cracow. (source: kiwiportal.pl)