Julian Fałat, (30 July 1853 in Tuligłowy near

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– 9 July 1929 in Bystra Śląska) was one of the most prolific

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and one of the country's foremost landscape painters as well as one of the leading Polish impressionists.

Biography

Fałat first studied under

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at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, and then at the Art Academy of Munich. After several trips throughout Europe and

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in 1885, Fałat compiled a collection of studies from his voyages which would become useful later in the development of his artwork. Themes typical of Fałat's painting are Polish landscapes, hunting scenes, portraits, and studies from his voyages. In 1886, Fałat accepted an invitation from future

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to serve as

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. Fałat died in Bystra Śląska on July 9, 1929. A museum in Poland, called Fałatówka, is devoted to him. Out of his three children, Kazimierz (Togo) (1904–1981) continued to paint in watercolour. Some works, having been looted under

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, very occasionally reappear in sales-rooms. In December 2010, two such paintings, "The Hunt" and "Off to the Hunt" were seized by U.S. authorities from auction houses in New York City. The works are to be repatriated to Poland's National Museum of Art in Warsaw. Some later works by Julian's son Kazimierz (Togo)(1904-81), produced in the same style after Togo settled in England (1947–), are largely in the hands of his later family. Fałat used to say: :"Polish art ought to convey our history and our beliefs, our qualities as well as our defects; it must be the quintessence of our soil, our sky, and our ideals."Julian Fałat - mistrz w technice akwarelowej - Bystra Śląska

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: Julian Fałat,

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1964, ed."Arkady".

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Julian Fałat, biography (in Polish)

Julian Fałat's Villa

U.S. returns paintings looted by Nazis to Poland
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