Stanisław Sheybal

Open air exhibition – Kremenets. Photographs of 1929–1939 – at the Krakow Suburb in Warsaw (26 October 2012) on a banner with photographs of the photographers: Henryk Hermanowicz, Ludwik Gronowski, and Stanisław Sheybal. Stanisław Sheybal (9 February 1891 – 15 March 1976) was a Polish photographer. He was a member of the Polish Photoclub, an animator and center of artistic and photographic activities in Kremenets and member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers.

Biography He was born on 9 February 1891 in Sambir, to Franciszek Ksawery (ca. 1859–1928, a Galician administration employee, and Wilhelmina (née Skibińska), a pianist. they moved first to Kraków and then settled in Zgierz, where he worked at the local gymnasium as a drawing teacher. In 1927 they moved to Kremenets, where, as in Zgierz, he became a drawing teacher. Members of the society included A. Berger, Z. Celarski, L. Gronowski i E. Smerecki. In 1936, the Royal Photographic Society in London, counted Sheybal among the top ten photographers using the . In 1936–1939, he headed the examination commission for the photographic profession at the Volyn Artisan House.

After the occupation of Kremenets by the Red Army in 1939, he worked (for two years) as a teacher at the Full Polish Ten-Year School, and during the German occupation, together with Henryk Hermanowicz, he ran the "Mystetstvo" Photographic Establishment. In 1942, he moved illegally to Warsaw, where he worked at the "BiS" photographic establishment, Bieńkowski and Szporek. At the same time, he passed the exam to become a master photographer, at the Artisans' House in Warsaw. From 1945 he cooperated in the organization of the Department of Culture of the Wojewódzki Office in Kraków. From 1946, he worked at the Ministry of Culture and Art, where he served first as an inspector and later as head of the Department of Art Education. In 1947 he became a member of the then newly established Union of Polish Artists Photographers.

He died on 15 March 1976 in Warsaw, and was buried on 20 March 1976 at the parish cemetery in Marysin Wawerski (sector 9A-1-40).

In 1984, the publishing house Literackie Kraków prepared for publication his memoirs Wspomnienia 1891–1970, which were completed in 1986. 22 July 1952 and 19 July 1955 ) Silver Wawrzyn Akademicki (4 November 1937) Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (19 January 1955) Medal of the National Education Commission (1967)