Oil, cardboard; size: 49 x 65 cm; signed l. d.: St. Kamocki
On the back, old stickers with the artist's name and information on technique.
One of the most talented students of Jan Stanislawski. Stanislaw Jozef Juliusz Kamocki (1875-1944) studied under Leon Wyczolkowski, Jacek Malczewski and Jan Stanislawski at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1891 to 1900, and in 1901 and 1902 in Paris. During World War I, he served in the First Brigade of the Polish Legions. He lived in Krakow and Zakopane, where he had his own studio. From 1919 he headed the landscape department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he was appointed a full professor in 1937. From 1942 he taught painting at the Zakopane State School of Highland Folk Art. He was a member of the Society of Polish Artists Art (since 1906), the Vienna Secession (1911-1918), the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and the Podhale Art Society. He was buried in the old cemetery in Zakopane.
