Stanisław Witkiewicz
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- For his son, the writer who lived 1885–1939, see Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.
Stanisław Witkiewicz (May 8, 1851 in Samogitia –5 September 1915 in Lovran) was a Polish writer, painter and art theoretician.
He studied in Saint Petersburg between 1869 and 1871 and then in Munich from 1872 to 1875.
He created the Zakopane style, styl zakopiański (or Witkiewicz style, styl witkiewiczowski) in architecture — see picture in Polish article on styl zakopiański. He was strongly tied to Zakopane and was always promoting it in the art community.
His son, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, became a famous painter, nicknamed (from the conflation of his surname and middle name) "Witkacy."
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.
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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