100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Fine Art of Krakow
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The Academy of Fine Art of Krakow is 475th in the world, 168th in Europe, and 10th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Academy of Fine Art of Krakow sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Roman Polanski
- Occupations
- writerdirectoractorcharacter actortheatrical director
- Biography
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Raymond Roman Thierry Polański is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or.
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Andrzej Wajda
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Art of Krakow
- 1946-1950 studied art of painting
- Occupations
- film producertelevision directortheatrical directorscreenwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).
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Jan Matejko
- Years
- 1838-1893 (aged 55)
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Art of Krakow
- Studied in 1852-1858
- Occupations
- university teacherpainter
- Biography
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Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Rejtan (1866), the Union of Lublin (1869), the Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or the Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland. Matejko was among the notable people to receive an unsolicited letter from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, as the latter tipped, in January 1889, into his psychotic breakdown while in Turin.
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Edward Rydz-Śmigły
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- writerpainterpoliticianmilitary officerpoet
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Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły [ˈɛdvard ˈrɨdz ˈɕmiɡwɨ], also called Edward Śmigły-Rydz, was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and poet.
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
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- painterwriterphilosopherart theoristplaywright
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period.
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Stanisław Wyspiański
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- scenographerplaywrightwritertranslatorarchitect
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Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas within the artistic philosophy of the Young Poland Movement.
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Maciej Berbeka
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- mountain guide
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Maciej Berbeka was a Polish mountaineer and mountain guide.
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Stanisław Szukalski
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- graphic artistsculptorpainterart theorist
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Stanisław Szukalski was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. Szukalski's art exhibits influence from ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Slavic, and Aztec combined with elements of art nouveau, from the various currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism and pre-Columbian art. During the 1920s, he was hailed as Poland's "greatest living artist". The style of his art was called "Bent Classicism".
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Zbigniew Herbert
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- writeressayistpoetauthorplaywright
- Biography
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Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled Chord of Light was issued in 1956), soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. He resumed publication in the 1980s, initially in the underground press. Since the 1960s, he was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books have been translated into 38 languages.
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Jacek Malczewski
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- art educatorpainterpublic figureuniversity teacher
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Jacek Malczewski was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism. His creative output combined the predominant style of his times with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek mythology, folk tales, as well as his love of the natural world. He was the father of painter Rafał Malczewski.
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Tadeusz Kantor
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- theatrical directorpaintervisual artistscenographersculptor
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Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Laureate of Witkacy Prize – Critics' Circle Award (1989).
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Wojciech Kossak
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- typographerpaintergraphic artist
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Wojciech Horacy Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz Kossak, and the father of two highly talented literary daughters, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec and of a painter son, Jerzy Kossak.
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Igor Mitoraj
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- sculptorjewelry designer
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Igor Mitoraj was a Polish artist and sculptor. Known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created for large-scale public installations, he is considered one of the most internationally recognized Polish sculptors.
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Krystyna Zachwatowicz
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- scenographercostume designeruniversity teacheractorfilm director
- Biography
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Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko h. Kościesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy. She is a co-founder (with Andrzej Wajda) of Centre of Japanese Art and Technology "Manggha" in Kraków.
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerdirector
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Jerzy Franciszek Kawalerowicz was a Polish film director and politician, having been a member of Polish United Workers' Party from 1954 until its dissolution in 1990 and a deputy in Polish parliament since 1985 until 1989.
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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- phenomenologistuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was a Polish philosopher, phenomenologist, founder and president of The World Phenomenology Institute, and editor (from its inception in the late 1960s) of the book series, Analecta Husserliana. She had a thirty-two-year friendship and occasional academic collaboration with Pope John Paul II.
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Józef Czapski
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- literary criticpainterwriteressayist
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Józef Czapski was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne. Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. Following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he was an official envoy of the Polish government searching for the missing Polish officers in Russia. After World War II, he remained in exile in the Paris suburb of Maisons-Laffitte, where he was among the founders of Kultura monthly, one of the most influential Polish cultural journals of the 20th century.
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Józef Mehoffer
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- painterteacherstained-glass artistdecoratorgraphic artist
- Biography
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Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.
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Artur Grottger
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- painter
- Biography
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Artur Grottger was a Polish Romantic painter and graphic artist, one of the most prominent artists of the mid 19th century under the partitions of Poland, despite a life cut short by incurable illness.
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Wojciech Jerzy Has
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerteacher
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Wojciech Jerzy Has was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
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Leon Wyczółkowski
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- graphic artistsculptorpainterdrawer
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Leon Jan Wyczółkowski was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum. From 1895 to 1911 he served as professor of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Kraków, and from 1934, ASP in Warsaw. He was a founding member of the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" (Art, 1897).
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Xawery Dunikowski
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- painteruniversity teachersculptor
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Xawery Dunikowski was a Polish sculptor and artist, notable for surviving Auschwitz concentration camp, and best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art.
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Jan Marcin Szancer
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- printmakergraphic designer
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Jan Marcin Szancer was a Polish illustrator, scenographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
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Ryszard Horowitz
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- singergraphic artistphotographer
- Biography
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Ryszard Horowitz is a Polish-born American photographer recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging.
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Mariusz Zaruski
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- painterwritermilitary officermountaineerphotographer
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Mariusz Zaruski was a brigadier-general in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains. He was a photographer, painter, poet and writer, a seamen and traveler, a conspirator, legionnaire and lancer in Polish cavalry.
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Julian Fałat
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- painterwatercoloristteacher
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Julian Fałat was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist.
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Wilhelm Sasnal
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- drawerpainterfilm directorphotographerillustrator
- Biography
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Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish painter, photographer, poster artist, illustrator and filmmaker. Sasnal graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1999. He is considered one of the most prominent and internationally successful Polish contemporary artists.
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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- paintergraphic artistphotographerillustratorengraver
- Biography
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Maurycy "Ephraim Moses" Lilien was an art nouveau illustrator and printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish themes and his influence on the Bezalel school art movement. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist."
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Jerzy Nowosielski
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- iconographerpainteruniversity teachertheologianphilosopher
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Jerzy Nowosielski was a Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer, illustrator and Eastern Orthodox theologian. He is regarded among the greatest contemporary Polish icon painters.
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Jurgis Savickis
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- writerdiplomat
- Biography
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Jurgis Savickis was a Lithuanian short story writer and diplomat representing interwar Lithuania mostly in the Scandinavian countries.
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Krystian Lupa
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- university teachergraphic artistplaywrighttheatrical directorwriter
- Biography
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Krystian Lupa is a Polish theatre director, set designer, playwright, translator and pedagogue. He has been called "the greatest living European theatre director".
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Teodor Axentowicz
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- paintergraphic artist
- Biography
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Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians.
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Tadeusz Makowski
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- graphic artistpoetpainterart theorist
- Biography
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Tadeusz Makowski was a Polish painter who worked in France and was associated with the School of Paris.
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Eugeniusz Kazimirowski
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- iconographerpainter
- Biography
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Eugeniusz Marcin Kazimirowski was a Polish painter, and member of the realism movement. He is best known for the first depiction of the Divine Mercy image in 1934, based on a request from Faustyna Kowalska and her confessor Michael Sopoćko.
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Ivan Trush
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- patron of the artspainteranthropologistart critic
- Biography
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Ivan Ivanovych Trush was a Ukrainian impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia or Halychyna – a historical region in western Ukraine. He was a son in law of Mykhailo Drahomanov.
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Wojciech Weiss
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- painteruniversity teachergraphic artist
- Biography
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Wojciech Weiss was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement.
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Ewa Lipska
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- painterwriterpoet
- Biography
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Ewa Lipska, is a Polish poet from the Polish New Wave generation. Collections of her poetry have been translated into English, French, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna and Kraków.
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Louis Marcoussis
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- printmakerpaintergraphic artistillustratorvisual artist
- Biography
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Louis Marcoussis, formerly Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus, was a Polish-French avant-garde painter active primarily in Paris. Markus studied law in Warsaw before attending the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and later moved to Paris to study under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian. His work was first featured in a major exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. In Paris, he became acquainted with prominent artists of the School of Paris and writers in the cafes of Montmartre and Montparnasse.
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Dea Trier Mørch
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- writergraphic artist
- Biography
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Dea Trier Mørch was a Danish artist and writer. She gained fame in 1976 with Vinterbørn, translated into English as Winter's Child.
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Maria Jarema
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- paintersculptorscenographer
- Biography
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Maria Jarema was a Polish painter, sculptor, scenographer and actress.
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Bronisław Chromy
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- medalistsculptorpainteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bronisław Chromy was a Polish sculptor, medalist, painter, and draughtsman, and a professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
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Józef Szajna
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- painterscenographeractordirectortheatrical director
- Biography
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Józef Szajna was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.
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Henryk Minkiewicz
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- military officer
- Biography
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Henryk Minkiewicz was a Polish socialist politician and a general of the Polish Army. Former commander of the Border Defence Corps, he was among the Polish officers murdered in the Katyń massacre.
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Jan Cybis
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- painteruniversity teacherart critic
- Biography
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Jan Cybis was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher.
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Witold Wojtkiewicz
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- drawerpainter
- Biography
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Witold Wojtkiewicz was a Polish painter, illustrator and printmaker. Although generally considered an Expressionist, some of his works are precursors of Surrealism.
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Roman Cieślewicz
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- paintergraphic artistdesignerphotographerposter artist
- Biography
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Roman Cieślewicz was a Polish (naturalized French) graphic artist and photographer.
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Czesław Słania
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- graphic artistdesignerpostage stamp designerengraver
- Biography
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Czesław Słania was a Polish postage stamp and banknote engraver, living in Sweden from 1956. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Słania was the most skilled and prolific of all stamp engravers, with over 1000 stamps to his credit. His 1000th engraved stamp, based on the 17th-century painting "Great Deeds by Swedish Kings" by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (2000), is in the Guinness Book as the largest engraved stamp ever issued.
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Władysław Skoczylas
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- sculptorgraphic artistcarverart educatorengraver
- Biography
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Władysław Skoczylas was a Polish watercolorist, woodcutter, sculptor and art teacher.
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Tytus Czyżewski
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- painterpoet
- Biography
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Tytus Czyżewski was a Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Polish Formists and a Colorist.
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Władysław T. Benda
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- designerpainterdecoratorphysicianillustrator
- Biography
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Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda was a Polish painter, illustrator, and designer.
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Walery Eljasz Radzikowski
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- painterphotographervisual artistgraphic artistillustrator
- Biography
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Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski was a Polish painter, illustrator, teacher of fine arts and photographer active during the foreign Partitions of Poland.
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Piotr Stachiewicz
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- painterillustrator
- Biography
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Piotr Stachiewicz was a Polish painter and illustrator.
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Franciszek Żmurko
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- painter
- Biography
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Franciszek Żmurko was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where he took lessons from Professor Jan Matejko. In 1877 Żmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna Academy, but left soon thereafter to study under Alexander von Wagner in Munich. Żmurko returned to Kraków in 1880 and then moved to Warsaw in 1882 where he remained until his death in 1910.
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Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz
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- painter
- Biography
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Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz was a Polish realist painter from around the turn-of-the-century, best known for his battle-scenes, portraits, landscapes and paintings of horses. He was educated in Kraków in the Austrian sector of the Partitioned Poland. He died in the armed struggle for Poland's independence around Kraków during World War I.
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Jovan Bijelić
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- painter
- Biography
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Jovan Bijelić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Бијелић (30 June [O.S. 19 June] 1884 – 12 March 1964) was a painter and academic. Bijelić is one of the most important representatives of color expressionism in Yugoslavia.
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Roman Kramsztyk
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- painter
- Biography
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Roman Kramsztyk was a Polish realist painter of Jewish descent in the interwar period. He was shot dead in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Oleksa Novakivsky
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- painter
- Biography
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Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi whose last name is also written as Novakivs´kyi was a Ukrainian painter and art teacher; known largely as an Impressionist.
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Czesław Dźwigaj
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Czesław Dźwigaj is a Polish artist, sculptor, and professor. Creator of numerous monuments, he is most often associated with monuments of Pope John Paul II, almost 50 of which have left his workshop.
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Erna Rosenstein
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- painterwriterpoet
- Biography
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Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary. She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer. she studied at the Wiener Frauenakademie in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group.
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Jan Nepomucen Głowacki
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- university teacherpainter
- Biography
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Jan Nepomucen Głowacki was a Polish realist painter of the Romantic era, regarded as the most outstanding landscape painter of the early 19th century in Poland under the foreign partitions. Głowacki studied painting at the Kraków School of Fine Arts and later at the academies of Prague and Vienna, as well as Rome and Munich. He returned to Kraków in 1828, and became a teacher of painting and drawing. From 1842 he served as a professor in the Faculty of Landscape Painting at the School of Fine Arts. His work can be found at the National Museum of Poland and its branches. Some of his work was looted by Nazi Germany in World War II and has never been recovered.
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Leopold Gottlieb
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- paintergraphic artist
- Biography
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Leopold Gottlieb was a Polish-Jewish modernist painter and part of the School of Paris. His brother Maurycy Gottlieb, also a painter, died before Leopold was born.
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Waldemar Świerzy
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- graphic artisttypographerpainterdesigner
- Biography
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Waldemar Świerzy was a Polish artist.
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Kazimierz Sichulski
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- graphic artistpaintercaricaturistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Kazimierz Sichulski was a Polish painter, lithographer and caricaturist; associated with the Young Poland movement. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Aleksander Kotsis
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- painter
- Biography
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Aleksander Kotsis was a Polish painter. He created landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes in a combination Romantic and Realistic style. Most of his paintings are small.
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Zygmunt Andrychiewicz
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- painter
- Biography
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Zygmunt Andrychiewicz was a Polish painter of portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
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Ludwik de Laveaux
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- painter
- Biography
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Stanisław Ludwik de Laveaux was a Polish painter.
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Władysław Łuszczkiewicz
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- restoreruniversity teacherteachermuseologistart educator
- Biography
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Władysław Łuszczkiewicz was a Polish historian and painter of the late Romantic era from Kraków, active in the period of the foreign partitions of Poland. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and served as its principal in 1893/95. One of his best students was Jan Matejko, the eminent Polish historical painter and later, his close associate. Łuszczkiewicz taught painting, drawing, anatomy and architectural styles. Highly educated, he also worked as conservator of architectural monuments in the city later on in his career, and wrote historical dissertations.
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Mykola Burachek
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Art of Krakow
- Studied in 1905-1910
- Occupations
- painterwriteruniversity teacherart historian
- Biography
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Mykola Burachek or Buraček, was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue.
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Aleksander Janicki
- Occupations
- performance artist
- Biography
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Aleksander Janicki is a Polish graphic artist, photographer, stage designer, multimedia concept designer and performer.
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Franciszek Mączyński
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Franciszek Mączyński was a Polish Art Nouveau architect. Prominent by 1910, his commissions include several major churches, and turn-of-the-century civic and cultural institutions designed in a Polish-influenced Secession style. In 1936 he was awarded the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature.
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Jerzy Bereś
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- performance artistwood carverpaintercarvervisual artist
- Biography
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Jerzy Bereś was a Polish sculptor, author and performance artist.
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Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski
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- painter
- Biography
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Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski was a Polish realist and romanticist painter. Born in Lwów (then Lemberg in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, now Lviv, Ukraine), in 1885 he graduated from the Kraków-based Academy of Fine Arts. A student of Florian Cynk and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, he moved to Vienna and then Munich, where he studied under the tutelage of Alexander von Liezen-Mayer between 1887 and 1889. He also spent a brief time in Paris and Rome before returning to his natal Lwów, where he spent the rest of his life. In the years 1903-1914 he ran his own painting school in Lviv.
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Iwo Gall
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- pedagoguescenographertheatrical director
- Biography
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Iwo Gall was a Polish theater director, stage designer and pedagogue.
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Eugeniusz Geppert
- Occupations
- university teacherpainter
- Biography
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Eugeniusz Geppert was a Polish painter associated with the Colourist movement, organizer of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
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Józef Rapacki
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- paintergraphic artistdrawer
- Biography
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Józef Rapacki was a Polish painter, watercolorist and graphic designer; best known for his nostalgic landscapes of Mazovia.
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Abraham Neumann
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Abraham Neumann was a Polish-Jewish painter and artist active in Kraków and Mandatory Palestine.
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Henryk Kuna
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Henryk Kuna was a Polish sculptor, active in the early twentieth century. His long career produced many famous works of arts including several renowned public monuments in his native country of Poland.
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Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz
- Occupations
- artistpainter
- Biography
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Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz was a Polish realist painter of the late 19th century specializing in portraits, genre and historical painting. Ajdukiewicz, was born and raised in Galicia, settled in the imperial capital upon the completion of his studies, but maintained a close connection with his homeland. While in Vienna, he illustrated the epic novel The Deluge (Potop) by Polish Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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Stanisław Lentz
- Occupations
- painterdrawercaricaturistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stanisław Lentz was a Polish painter, portraitist, illustrator, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1909.
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Kazimierz Pochwalski
- Occupations
- portraitistpainterteacheruniversity teacherartist
- Biography
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Kazimierz Teofil Pochwalski was a Polish painter known primarily for his portraits, although he produced works in a wide variety of genres.
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Zygmunt Kamiński
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Zygmunt Kamiński was a Polish painter and professor at the Warsaw University of Technology. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also designed the modern Coat of arms of Poland.
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Stefan Filipkiewicz
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- paintergraphic artistvisual artist
- Biography
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Stefan Filipkiewicz pronounced [ˈstɛfan filipˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] was a Polish painter and designer, notable for his landscapes inspired by the Young Poland movement. He was a leading representative of the Polish art nouveau style of painting.
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Bolesław Barbacki
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Bolesław Barbacki was a Polish painter.
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Gela Seksztajn
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artist
- Biography
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Gela Seksztajn was a Polish artist and painter. She is known mostly for her portraits and other paintings hidden within the Ringelblum Archive, in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. The paintings were found after the end of World War II, and are now held mostly in the archive of the Jewish Historical Institute, in Warsaw, Poland.
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Aleksander Kobzdej
- Occupations
- painterteacherdrawerarchitectscenographer
- Biography
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Aleksander Kobzdej was a Polish painter. He was born in, what was then, Ukraine. Kobzdej is best known for being one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish Social Realist group, and for being the creator of unique Polish versions of "matter" painting.
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Roman Kochanowski
- Occupations
- painterartistdrawer
- Biography
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Roman Kochanowski was a Polish painter and illustrator who lived in Germany. He is mostly known for his landscapes, although he occasionally did portraits as well.
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Henryk Gotlib
- Occupations
- paintersculptorwriter
- Biography
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Henryk Gotlib was a Polish painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and writer, who settled in England during World War II and made a significant contribution to modern British art. He was profoundly influenced by Rembrandt, and the European Expressionist painters. Gotlib was a leading member of the Polish avant-garde 'Formist' movement in the interwar Poland.
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Wincenty Wodzinowski
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- painter
- Biography
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Wincenty Wodzinowski was a Polish painter and art teacher; associated with the Young Poland movement.
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Wojciech Jastrzębowski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Art of Krakow
- Studied in 1904-1909
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- visual artistsculptorgraphic artistlecturerdesigner
- Biography
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Wojciech Jastrzębowski was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Tadeusz Popiel
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Tadeusz Popiel was a Polish painter, known for his religious and historical scenes; especially his work on several famous panoramas. His brother was the sculptor, Antoni Popiel.
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Władysław Jarocki
- Occupations
- explorerpaintertraveleruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Władysław Jarocki was a Polish explorer and painter born in Ukraine, then Austria-Hungary. He competed in the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Most of his artwork was concerned with the Polish Highlanders, the Gorals.
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Stanisław Kamocki
- Occupations
- university teacherpainter
- Biography
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Stanisław Kamocki was a Polish painter.
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Adam Studziński
- Occupations
- presbyter
- Biography
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Fr. Adam Studziński was a Polish Roman Catholic priest (of the Dominican Order). Studzinski served as chaplain of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II.
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Margit Sielska-Reich
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- painterphotographervisual artist
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Margit Sielska-Reich was a Polish-Ukrainian painter who worked in Lviv.
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Ludwik Konarzewski
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Ludwik Konarzewski – senior was a Polish painter, sculptor and teacher of fine arts who worked in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia.
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Olga Niewska
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Olga Niewska was a Polish sculptor who competed in the art competitions at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Zygmunt Rozwadowski
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Zygmunt Rozwadowski was a Polish painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Stanisław Dębicki
- Occupations
- graphic artistart educatorpainterillustrator
- Biography
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Stanisław Mieczysław Dębicki, was a Polish painter and illustrator.
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Seweryn Bieszczad
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Seweryn Bieszczad was a Polish painter. He was noted for his sense of realism and use of watercolor in painting primarily landscapes.
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Aleksander Augustynowicz
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Aleksander Augustynowicz was a Polish painter, active between 1865 and 1944 in Poland.
