Stanisław Jackowski

Who was Stanisław Jackowski?

Stanisław Jackowski was a Polish sculptor, and nephew of novelist Bolesław Prus. In 1909-11 Jackowski studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Konstanty Laszczka, as well as the history of art at Kraków University. In 1911-12 he attended the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France.

Stanisław Jackowski was born in 1887 to Polish parents in Warsaw, in the part of Poland then ruled by the Russian Empire following the Partitions of Poland.

Jackowski completed his art studies before the First World War in Kraków, the Austrian-ruled part of Poland, and throughout the Interwar period lived and worked in Warsaw. He was a member, and for many years president, of the Rzeźba Society.

Jackowski died in 1951 in Katowice, Poland.