Stanisław Grocholski

Stanisław Grocholski (6 June 1865 – 26 February 1932) was a Polish painter, active in Poland, Germany, and in the United States. He is the son of Antoni Rafał of the Syrokomla Coat of Arms.

Biography He was born in Żołynia. From 1877 to 1880, he took classes with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Later, with Carl Wurzinger in Vienna, with Léon Bonnat in Paris, and with Alexander von Wagner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

In 1886, Grocholski exhibited the interior of a church in Vienna. His first notable work was Drying of the Sore (Suszenie bielizny; 1889), which was exhibited in Munich. He was most active in Munich, where he lived for up to 20 years. Between the years 1880 to 1900, he exhibited his paintings at the Glaspalast in Munich. He had also worked with the magazines Die Gartenlaube and Moderne, where woodcuts based on his artworks were printed. In Poland, reproduction of the artist's work were published in the journals Kłosy and Tygodnik Illustrowany.

He painted the interior scenes of folk cottages, conveying the everyday life of the people, capturing: the celebrations, indulgence, sickness and fighting.

He died in 1932 in Buffalo, New York.

Selected paintings