Stanislaw Witkiewicz

Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1851–5 September 1915) was a Polish writer, painter and art theoretician, father of Witkacy (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz). Creator of Zakopane style, styl zakopianski (or Witkiewicz style, styl witkiewiczowski) — see picture in Polish article on styl zakopianski. 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.

Suffering from tuberculosis, he left his family in Zakopane in 1908 to settle in Lovranno (in modern-day Croatia) where he died in 1915.