Władysław Wankie

Władysław Wankie (born 1860 in Warsaw, died 1925 therein) was a Polish painter and art critic. He painted realist landscape paintings, genre scenes, religious art, and symbolic art. He was the co-author of the Panorama of the Tatra Mountains (Panorama Tatr).

Władysław Wankie studied art between 1875 and 1880, when he was taught by Wojciech Gerson, following shortly at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków; where he was taught by Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko. However, he did not accept the dominating academic art at the institution, and in 1882, he moved to Munich, where he lived for twenty years. While studying in Munich he became closely associated with a number of Polish artists which revolved around Józef Brandt. He remained in close contact with artists in Poland, where he exhibited his artwork inter alia Warsaw at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, he cooperated with Polish journals.

In 1903, he returned to Poland, and lived in Warsaw. In 1905, he became a member of the Society of the Incentive for Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych); in the years of 1906 to 1924, he redacted for the art journal "Świat", and cooperated with the "Tygodnik Ilustracyjny" and "Kurier Warszawski". He was one of the founders and leaders of the conservative Society Pro Arte (Stowarzyszenie Pro Arte).