Dimensions: 50 x 69 cm
Signed p.d.: 'ST. GAŁEK'
on the painting loom a paper inventory sticker with the number: '102 9'
Origins
private collection, Warsaw
Biography
From 1899 to 1900 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under J. Malczewski and J. Stanislawski. He continued his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After arriving in Poland, he lived in Zakopane. He was a member of the Podhale Art Society. He made numerous artistic trips to Paris, Italy and the Crimea, among other places. After 1945, he exhibited in Zakopane, where his jubilee exhibition was held in 1960, and with the 'Zachęta' group in Warsaw. He painted mainly views of the Tatra Mountains; in the interwar period he was regarded as the best landscape painter of the Tatra Mountains. He also painted portraits.
