Stanisław Witkiewicz
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Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851–5 September 1915) was a Polish writer, painter and art theoretician, father of Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz). Creator of Zakopane style, styl zakopiański (or Witkiewicz style, styl witkiewiczowski) — see picture in Polish article on styl zakopiański. He was strongly tied to Zakopane and was always promoting it in the art community.
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.
His son, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, became a famous painter, nicknamed 'Witkacy'.
Suffering from tuberculosis, he left his family in Zakopane in 1908 to settle in Lovranno (in modern-day Croatia) where he died in 1915.