JULIAN FALAT

 

JULIAN FALAT

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Sunday Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Julian Fałat (1853-1929) was a Polish painter in water Colour Landscapes. He was a leading impressionistic painter of Poland.

Falat, for a while, worked as a draftsman at the construction of a railway in Switzerland. He first studied art at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, and then at the Art Academy of Munich. He visited countries of the Europe in 1885, and compiled a collection of the studies. He painted landscapes, hunting scenes, winter scapes, cottages, historic sites and portraits. He accepted request of (future) German Emperor Wilhelm II to serve as court painter in Berlin. He was Director of the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, then the Academy of Fine Arts. He reformed and modernized the art education.

Falat was a prolific painter. A museum in Poland, called Fałatówka, is devoted to him. Some of his works were looted during German occupation. 

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