Stefan FILIPKIEWICZ

WINTER LANDSCAPE Watercolor, paper; 36 x 51 cm

Signed p.d.: Stefan Filipkiewicz

Asking price 5000

Estimate 7000 - 8000

Stefan FILIPKIEWICZ

1879 Tarnów - 1944 Matthausen

Painter and printmaker, landscape painter. From 1900 to 1908 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with Jozef Mehoffer, Leon Wyczółkowski, Jozef Pankiewicz and Jan Stanislawski. Already during his studies, he took part in exhibitions of the Cracow TPSP, and later participated in many national and international exhibitions. He is considered one of the most outstanding students of Stanislawski and his school of landscape. He painted landscapes of the Tatra and Podhale mountains, landscapes from Radziszów near Krakow, where he spent his vacations, and in later years also seaside views. He also painted decorative still lifes with bouquets of flowers. He was involved in printmaking, illustration, poster and medal design. From 1908 he was a member of the Society of Polish Artists "Art". In 1913-1914 he taught a course in decorative painting at the Industrial School in Cracow, from 1930 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and from 1937 he was a professor at the Academy. In 1929 he received a gold medal at the General National Exhibition in Poznań, and in 1933 he received the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences award for lifetime achievement. In 1914-1917 he served in the Legions, and during World War II he was active in the underground. Arrested by the Gestapo, he was taken to the Mauthausen-Gusen camp in July 1944, where he was murdered on August 23.