by Maria and Andrew Styka

This fascinating bi-lingual (English and Polish) epic details the lives and artistic careers of Master Jan Styka, his two sons Tadeusz and Adam and the entire historic background of events which took place at the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Drawn from artist memoirs and personal family archives, follow the interesting accounts through the countries in which they lived and worked. . . Poland, Italy, France, United States of America and Africa.

Published for the first time are unknown photographs, over 150 reproductions, personal documents and fragments of the personal lives of the artists and the memoires of Jan Styka and Adam Styka written before and after World War I. Detailed are accounts of well-known personalities of the era, friends of the Stykas who visited their ateliers in Garches, near Paris, on the isle of Capri, Place Pigalle in Paris, and in Central Park South in New York. Interesting is the description and history of Jan Styka's "Panorama Raclawice". Jan Styka conceived and created this gigantic painting, which is now exhibited in Poland.

Languages: English and Polish
Hardcover, 126 pages.
Okladka twarda, 126 stron.

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