Stanisław Witkiewicz
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Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851–5 September 1915) was a Polish writer, painter and art theoretician, father of Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz). Creator of Zakopane style, styl zakopiański (or Witkiewicz style, styl witkiewiczowski) — see picture in Polish article on styl zakopiański. He was strongly tied to Zakopane and was always promoting it in the art community.
Witkiewicz had strong views against formal education: "school is completely at odds with the psychological make-up of human beings". He applied this principle in his son's upbringing and was disappointed when the 20-year-old Witkacy chose to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
His son, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, became a famous painter, nicknamed (from the conflation of his surname and middle name) "Witkacy."
In 1908, suffering from tuberculosis, the elder Witkiewicz left his family in Zakopane to settle in Lovranno, in present-day Croatia, where he died in 1915.
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