Ludwik Stasiak

After graduating in 1879, he was undecided about his future, simultaneously studying philosophy at the Jagellonian University and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Izydor Jabłoński, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Florian Cynk, Leopold Löffler and Jan Matejko were among his teachers.

Two years later, after travelling in Austria and Germany, with a brief stay in Warsaw, he returned to Bochnia and opened a studio which became a gathering point for artists of the Young Poland movement.

He also became interested in the sculptor Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz), a major figure in Medieval Kraków.

[1] After extensive research, he concluded that Stoss was actually of Polish, not German origin, and wrote several works supporting that thesis.