Władysław Jarocki

Władysław Jarocki (* June 6, 1879 in Podhajczyki at Trembowla; † February 7, 1965 in Kraków ) was a Polish painter who mainly themed motifs in the Podhale region and the Tatra Mountains, to the Hutsul.

Life

Jarocki studied at the Politechnika in Lviv and from 1902 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Józef Mehoffer and Leon Wyczółkowski. As early as 1903, he broke off his studies in Krakow and moved to Tatarów in the east of Little Poland. From 1906 to 1907 he studied in Paris at the Academie Julian. In 1911 he moved to Lviv, where until 1921 he worked as a lecturer in drawing at the Architecture Faculty of Politechnika of 1920.

From 1921 to 1939 he was professor at the Academy in Krakow. Among his students were there Paweł Dadlez, Adam Marczyński and Stanisław Borysowski. Jarocki was a member of Towarzystwo Artystów Polskich " Sztuka ". He was also from 1927 to 1935 Chairman of the Krakow Society of Friends Beautiful Art.

In addition to landscapes and portraits he painted religious motifs as well as cartoons. His works were exhibited in Vienna, Paris, Detroit, Philadelphia and The Hague. He designed the coffin for the writer Jan Kasprowicz, whose daughter he had married Anna 1920. Frequently he was therefore in the "Villa Harenda ", the home of Zakopane Kasprowicz to visit. Here is now also Wladyslaw Jarocki Art Gallery. Most of his images are, however, in the National Museum in Krakow and Poznan.

In 1938 he was awarded for his outstanding contribution to Polish art in general of the Polish Academy of Literature (Polish: Polska Akademia Literatury ) the award " Wawrzyn Akademicki " in gold.