Stanisław Kamocki
Stanisław Kamocki (* 1875 in Warsaw, † 1944 in Zakopane ) was a Polish painter, graphic artist and high school teacher. He belonged to the Młoda Polska movement.
Life
From 1891 to 1900 Kamocki under Leon Wyczółkowski, Jacek Malczewski and Jan Stanisławski studied at the Art Academy of Krakow and subsequently by means of two scholarships 1901/1902 and 1904/1905 in Paris. Since 1908 he taught at the Krakow School of Arts for Women " Maria Niedzielska ". In 1911 and again in 1924 he visited Italy. During World War II he served three years in the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions. Later Kamocki lived in Krakow and Zakopane, where he maintained a studio. In 1919 he became head of the department of landscape painting at the Cracow Academy, where he was appointed professor in 1937. Of his students were here Antoni Teslar and Stanisław Borysowski. During the war, he taught at the State School of Arts and Crafts (Polish: Państwowa SzkoĹ Rzemiosła Artystycznego ). From 1942 he taught then painting at the National Folk Art School (Polish: Państwowa SzkoĹ Góralskiej Sztuki Ludowej ) in Zakopane. He was since 1906 a member of the Towarzystwo Artystów Polskich " Sztuka ", from 1911 to 1918 at the Vienna Secession in the Warsaw Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pieknych and society Towarzystwa Sztuka Podhalańska. His grave is located in the old cemetery ( Cmentarz Zasłużonych na Pęksowym Brzyzku ) in Zakopane.
Family
In 1912, he married Zofia Zatheyów, the daughter of a teacher and writer. His wife's sister, Jadwiga, was married to the painter Jan Wladyslaw Pochwalski, a son of Józef Kasper Pochwalski. Their children were the painter Kasper Pochwalski and Stanisław Pochwalski. A brother of Jan Wladyslaw Pochwalski was Kasimir Pochwalski.
Work
Kamocki belonged beside Stefan Filipkiewicz and Ludwik Misky the most important representatives of the symbolic landscape painting, which had their teacher Stanisławski represented. How Stanisławski also used Kamocki thick oil paint. In plein-air painting emerged Views from Volhynia, Podolia, Zips, Orava, areas around Krakow, Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains. Sometimes he also painted still life. Originally he created larger paintings on canvas; in the 1920s he painted almost exclusively on cardboard.
Kamocki presented with the TZSP since 1899 in group exhibitions and in 1917 a solo exhibition from. The Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow taught each of a solo exhibition in 1920 and 1935. His work has been internationally - shown - in Vienna, Budapest, Venice, Berlin, Prague, Moscow, Brussels and New York. Pictures of him are in the National Museum in Krakow and Warsaw, as well as in regional museums in Sandomierz (Muzeum Okęgowe ), Katowice ( Muzeum Śląskie ) and Bytom (Muzeum Górnośląske ).