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Julian Fałat, BEFORE THE SHADOW, 1881

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Estimations: 19 191 - 25 587 EUR
67.3 x 49.3cm - watercolor, gouache, paper

Watercolor, gouache, paper with filigree: J WHATMAN | TURKEY MILL | 1855



Signed l.d.: Fałat | 81



On the reverse, on the upper slat of the frame, a fragment of a sticker of the Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition in Warsaw.





From around 1880, Fałat's paintings show themes strongly associated with his childhood. The artist, raised among peasants, devotes his attention to them. He paints genre scenes, lumberjacks, peasant poor. The paintings of the early 1880s are dominated by light and dark brown tones, of which the present painting is also an example.



Julian Fałat (Tuligłowy [Lvov district] 1853 - Bystra near Bielsko 1929) - painter and pedagogue - one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, member of Polish and European creative associations and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, repeatedly awarded medals at international exhibitions. He studied painting with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Leon Dembowski at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow (1868-71 and 1881) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Alexander Strähuber and Johan Leonhardt Raab (1877-80). After his studies he spent several months in Rome, in 1884 he was in Paris and Spain, and in 1885 he made a sea voyage around the world. In 1886, while hunting with the Prince Radziwill family in Nesvizh, he met the later German Emperor Wilhelm II - for whom he then worked as a court painter in Berlin in 1886-95. In 1894-96 he collaborated with Wojciech Kossak on the Berezina panorama. In 1895 he was appointed director of the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he thoroughly reformed the teaching system, transforming the school into a modern Academy of Fine Arts (r.1900). He was rector of the Academy until 1910; after retiring, he settled in Bystra near Bielsko. An excellent watercolorist, he also painted in oils. In his earlier period he worked in the realist convention, with time he lightened and enriched his palette, and in watercolors he introduced an overflowing color patch. He became famous as a painter of hunting scenes usually set in winter scenery; he also painted landscapes, rural genre scenes, portraits, city views.

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