Julian Fałat
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Julian Fałat, (1853 – 1929), was one of the most extensive Polish painters of watercolor as well as one of that country's foremost landscape painters. He was also among the leading Polish impresionists. Fałat studied under Władyslaw Łuszczkiewicz at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, then at the Art Academy of Munich. After several trips throughout Europe and Asia in 1885, Fałat developed a record of impressions of his voyages which would be useful later in his artwork. Typical of Fałat painting themes are Polish landscape, hunting scenes, portraits and outlines from his voyages. In 1886, Fałat accepted the invitation of Wilhelm II, emperor of Prussia, to serve him in Berlin as his court painter.
Falat died in Bystra Śląska on July 19, 1929. Fałatowka, a museum in Poland, is devoted to him.
Falat often repeated:
- "Polish art must express our history and our faith like our qualities and our defects; it must be an expression of our ground of our sky and our ideals."
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