Background
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.
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.
In 1909-1911 Jackowski studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) under Konstanty Laszczka, as well as the history of art at Krakow University. In 1911-1912 he attended the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France. Jackowski completed his art studies before the First World War in Krakow, 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 (Sculpture) Society. Jackowski died in 1951 in Katowice, Poland.