Pastel on paper, signed p.d. "St. Mazurkiewicz"
Dimensions in frame: 90x77 cm (66x54 cm)
Stanislaw Marek Mazurkiewicz (born 1883 Czarna Wieś) painter, art critic, doctor of law. In 1912-1914 and 1918-1919 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, among others with Jacek Malczewski, receiving a commendatory mention at the students' exhibition in 1914. In 1914 he was also a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (he studied under Wojciech Hynais). From about 1926 he lived in Zakopane. In 1931-1933, he participated in exhibitions of the Association of Visual Artists in Zakopane, and in 1934 in Cieszyn, at an exhibition organized by the Group of Ten. He wrote on artistic subjects in the magazines "Wytworny Style" (1936), "Young Avant-Garde" (1934, 1937), "Voice of the Nation" (1937), "Time" (1937-1939).
