94 Notable alumni of
Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
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The Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw is 575th in the world, 214th in Europe, and 14th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 94 notable alumni from the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
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- composerpainter
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.
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Magdalena Abakanowicz
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- sculptorpainterathletics competitorperformance artistuniversity teacher
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Magdalena Abakanowicz was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist. Known for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium and for outdoor installations, Abakanowicz has been considered among the most influential Polish artists of the postwar era. She worked as a professor of studio art at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland, from 1965 to 1990, and as a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.
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Henryk Chmielewski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1950-1956
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- opinion journalistgraphic artistgraphic designerdraftspersonpublicist
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Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski, also known under his pseudonym Papcio Chmiel, was a Polish comic book artist and journalist.
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Krystyna Sienkiewicz
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- actorfilm actor
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Krystyna Waleria Sienkiewicz was a Polish actress and singer.
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Jonasz Kofta
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1967
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- radio personalitypoetsongwriterwriterlyricist
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Jonasz Kofta, real name: Janusz Kofta was a Polish songwriter and a poet who was born in Mizocz, Volhynia and died in Warsaw.
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Roman Opałka
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- photographerconceptual artistpainterprintmaker
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Roman Opałka was a French-born Polish painter, whose works are mostly associated with conceptual art.
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Józef Czapski
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- writerpainterliterary criticessayist
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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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Antoni Słonimski
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- opinion journalistplaywrightpainterscience fiction writerpoet
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Antoni Słonimski was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justice.
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Antoni Krauze
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Antoni Krauze was a Polish screenwriter and director.
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Tomasz Lipiński
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- composerdesignersinger
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Tomasz “Frantz” Lipinski is a Polish rock guitarist, lyricist, composer and singer. Born on 21 August 1955 in Warsaw, Lipinski is the founder of Tilt, one of the first punk rock bands in Poland, and co-founder of Brygada Kryzys, regarded as an influential rock band in Poland. Furthermore, he was a member of the bands Fotoness and Izrael.
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Władysław Podkowiński
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- painter
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Władysław Podkowiński was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period.
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Jerzy Duszyński
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- actor
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Jerzy Duszyński was one of the most popular actors in a post-war Poland. He starred in a number of film productions as well as theatrical plays.
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Hanna Bakuła
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- painter
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Hanna Bakuła is a Polish painter, scenographer and Playboy's columnist.
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Lech Majewski
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- writercinematographerscreenwriterpainterpoet
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Lech Majewski is a Polish film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.
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Allan Starski
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- scenographer
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Allan Mieczysław Starski is a Polish Oscar-winning production designer and set decorator.
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Władysław Hasior
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- paintersculptor
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Władysław Hasior was a Polish sculptor, painter and theatre set designer. He was one of the leading Polish contemporary sculptors connected with the Podhale region.
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Józef Pankiewicz
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- graphic artistuniversity teacherpainter
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Józef Pankiewicz was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France.
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Feliks Falk
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1966
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- theatrical directorscreenwriterfilm directordirector
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Feliks Falk ps. Robert F. Lane, Edward Neyman is a Polish film and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, he also is a painter and graphic artist. Falk is one of creators of the 1970s wave of Polish cinematography, called Cinema of Moral Anxiety. His most famous films include Wodzirej (Top Dog) (1977) and Samowolka (AWOL) (1993). Falk has won a number of major filmmaking awards. His 1987 film Hero of the Year was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and a Special Prize.
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
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- photographervideo artistconceptual artistmultimedia artistperformance artist
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Krzysztof Wodiczko is a Polish artist known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 80 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
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Wojciech Siudmak
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- painter
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Wojciech Kazimierz "Wojtek" Siudmak is a Polish painter and sculptor currently living in France. He was a student at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1966, he moved to France where he studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. His works are often used as illustrations for science fiction and fantasy literature, including the Polish edition of Frank Herbert's Dune series. He is also known for his work on album covers, including the award-winning cover for Eloy's 1977 album Ocean. Siudmak painted in 1985 a picture Ethernal Love, he continues the subject e.g. in the form of monuments.
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Honorat Koźmiński
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- Catholic priestCatholic theologianreligious
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Honorat Koźmiński, born Florentyn Wacław Jan Stefan Koźmiński, was a Polish priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who went on to establish sixteen religious congregations. He was a teacher before reinvigorating clandestine religious orders that the Russian Empire had suppressed during their occupation of Poland. He collaborated with a number of individuals in this venture and he publicised the Third Order of Saint Francis to people.
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Nil Khasevych
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- painter
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Nil Antonovych Khasevych was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, active public and political figure, member of the OUN and the UHVR. He was also a knight of the Silver Cross of Merit and the Medal "For the fight in especially difficult circumstances". His pseudonyms are Bey-Zot, Levko, Rybalka, 333, Staryi, and Dzhmil.
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Eryk Lipiński
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- caricaturistdraftspersondesignergraphic artist
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Eryk Lipiński was a Polish artist. Satirist, caricaturist, essayist, he has designed posters, written plays and sketches for cabarets, as well as written books on related subjects.
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Dea Trier Mørch
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- graphic artistwriter
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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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Katarzyna Kozyra
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- photographersculptorperformance artistartistvideo artist
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Katarzyna Kozyra is a Polish video artist. She studied German studies at the University of Warsaw (1985–1988). In 1993, she also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she studied sculpture and Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Kozryra received a Paszport Polityki award in 1997 as the most promising artist in Poland. She has exhibited internationally since 1997, at venues including Brown University and Carnegie International in the U.S.
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Stanisław Masłowski
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- painterdraftspersonillustrator
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Stanisław Masłowski was a Polish painter of realistic style, the author of watercolor landscapes.
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Józef Gosławski
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- sculptordesignercaricaturist
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Józef Jan Gosławski was a Polish sculptor and medallic artist. He was a designer of coins (e.g. 5 zł with fisherman), monuments (e.g. Frédéric Chopin in Żelazowa Wola) and medals (e.g. Year 1939). Laureate of many artistic competitions; decorated with the Silver Cross of Merit.
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Tadeusz Baranowski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1969
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- draftspersonpaintervoice actorcomics artist
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Tadeusz Baranowski is a Polish comic book artist. He published his first comic in 1975 in Świat Młodych. Being invited by Grzegorz Rosiński he worked a few years in Belgium, publishing some comics in Tintin magazine; however, due to interference from magazine owners he quit this job and returned to Poland in the 1990s.
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Henryk Tomaszewski
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- graphic designerartistdesignerteachergraphic artist
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Henryk Tomaszewski was a Polish poster artist and the "father" of the Polish Poster School.
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Nadia Léger
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- mosaicistpainter
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Nadia Khodasevich Léger (Belarusian: Надзе́я Пятро́ўна Хадасе́віч-Лежэ́. Russian: Надежда Петровна Ходасевич-Леже) (23 September 1904 – 7 November 1982) was a French-Belarusian artist. She was the first wife of Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski and the second wife of French artist Fernand Léger. The Russian form of her name can be transliterated as Nadezhda Khodasevich or Khodassevich or Khodasievitch; and from the Polish form, Wanda Chodasiewicz.
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Mirosław Bałka
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- video artistartistdraftspersoninstallation artistsculptor
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Miroslaw Balka is a Polish contemporary sculptor and video artist.
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Szarlota Pawel
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1974
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- comics artistpainter
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Szarlota Pawel; actual name, Eugenia Joanna Pawel-Kroll was a Polish comic book artist, creator of the popular series about Jonka, Jonek and Kleks, among other comics.
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Jacques Hnizdovsky
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- postage stamp designeretcherart historiangraphic artistsculptor
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Jacques Hnizdovsky was a Ukrainian-born American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor.
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Paweł Althamer
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- video installation artistvideo artistartistsculptorinstallation artist
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Paweł Althamer is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art.
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Joanna Rajkowska
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- video artist
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Joanna Rajkowska is a Polish contemporary artist who came onto the Polish art scene in the 1990s. Her most famous work is called "Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue", a 15-meter-tall (50-foot) artificial palm tree installed on Warsaw's Jerusalem Avenue.
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Nathan Rapoport
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- paintersculptor
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Nathan Rapoport was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.
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Leon Tarasewicz
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1984
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- university teacherpainterdraftsperson
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Leon Tarasewicz is a Polish painter of Belarusian origin, professor of fine arts, academic teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
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Feliks Topolski
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- painterartist
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Feliks Topolski RA was a Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman working primarily in the United Kingdom.
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Aleksander Sochaczewski
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- painter
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Aleksander Sochaczewski was a Polish painter who participated in the Polish January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863. He was then exiled to Siberia. He is known for his paintings of the uprising and the Siberian katorga and exile.
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Alicja Wahl
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- painter
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Alicja Wahl was a Polish artist. She is known for her contribution to the cultural life of Warsaw in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska
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- painter
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Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska was a Polish painter. She was the daughter of President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski and First Lady Maria Wojciechowska.
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Ewa Kuryluk
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- photographerpainterwriterart criticart historian
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Ewa Kuryluk is a Polish artist. She is a pioneer of textile installation, painter, photographer, art historian, novelist and poet, and the author of numerous books, written in Polish and English, many of which have been translated into other languages. She has had over fifty solo exhibitions, participated in many group shows and created outdoor installations throughout the world. Her work can be seen in the National Museums in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław and Poznań, as well as in public and private collections in Europe, USA, Latin America and Japan.
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Bronisław Wojciech Linke
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- graphic artistpaintercaricaturist
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Bronisław Wojciech Linke,, was a Polish painter and graphic artist noted for his metaphorical realism in his depiction of human destructiveness.
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Mieczyslaw Szcuka
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- artistphotographerpaintertypographersculptor
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Mieczysław Szczuka was a Polish avant-garde artist and mountaineer.
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Jan Mlodozeniec
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- graphic designerdesignergraphic artistpaintervisual artist
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Jan Młodożeniec was a Polish graphic designer. He worked in posters, drawing, book and publication design, and illustration.
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Chaim Goldberg
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- paintersculptor
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Chaim Goldberg was a Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver. He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages (or shtetlekh) like the one in his native Kazimierz Dolny in south-eastern Poland. He witnessed the colorful life and began to draw what he saw. The recurring art colony atmosphere became the highpoint of his self-actualization dreams, as he envisioned himself becoming an artist like those who visited the village. He yearned to experience life as they did for himself, and later undertook the mission of being a leading painter of Holocaust-era art, which to the artist was seen as an obligation and art with a sense of profound mission.
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Piotr Uklański
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- photographerfilm directorvideo artistpainterperformance artist
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Piotr Uklański is a Polish-American contemporary artist, director and photographer who has produced art since the mid 1990s which have explored themes of spectacle, cliché, and tropes of modern art. Many of his pieces and projects take well-known, overused, sometimes sentimental subjects and tropes and both embraces and subverts them. Untitled (Dance Floor) (1996) is one of his best known works which took a minimalist grid floor in the gallery and developed it into a disco dance floor activated with sound and lit with bright colors. His works have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Ewa Partum
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- conceptual artistphotographerprintmakerfilmmakerperformance artist
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Ewa Partum is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist.
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Józef Szermentowski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1852-1857
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- painter
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Józef Szermentowski, or Szermętowski, was a Polish landscape painter, influenced by the Barbizon School.
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Lubomir Tomaszewski
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- ceramicistteacherpainterdesignersculptor
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Lubomir Wojciech Tomaszewski was a Polish-American painter, sculptor and designer born in Warsaw, Poland. He lived in United States since 1966.
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Franciszek Kostrzewski
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- paintercaricaturistillustrator
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Franciszek Kostrzewski was a Polish illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, comics artist and painter in the Realistic style.
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Romuald Gutt
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- university teacherurban plannerarchitect
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Romuald Gutt was a Polish architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Antoni Kenar
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- sculptor
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Antoni Kenar was a Polish sculptor, educator, and director of the Antoni Kenar School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. He was also a mountaineer.
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Karol Tchorek
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- sculptor
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Karol Tchorek was a Polish sculptor, art dealer and art collector. The designer of monuments, an activist in the ZPAP, and winner, among other awards, of the Polish Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Jeremi Kubicki
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- painter
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Jeremi Kubicki was a Polish painter. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. He committed suicide at 27 years of age by shooting himself in 1938.
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Henryk Kuna
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- paintersculptor
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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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Krzysztof Bednarski
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- scenographersculptorvisual artist
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Krzysztof Michał Bednarski is a contemporary Polish-Italian sculptor.
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Władysław Malecki
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- painter
- Biography
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Władysław Aleksander Malecki was a Polish landscape painter in the Realistic style.
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Bronislaw Abramowicz
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- painter
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Bronisław Abramowicz was a Polish painter, born in Załuchów.
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Krzysztof Jung
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- graphic designerpainter
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Krzysztof Jung was a Polish painter, graphic artist, performer, teacher and creator of the conception of the Plastic Theatre.
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Zeev Ben-Zvi
- Years
- 1904-1952 (aged 48)
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1920-1923
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- sculptorpedagogue
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Zeev Ben-Zvi was a Polish-Israeli sculptor born in Ryki, Poland, whose work influenced a generation of sculptors.
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Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski
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- painter
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Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski was a Polish painter. Małkowski was a professor of contemporary art at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, founder of artistic groups and associations throughout Poland, organizer of modern art exhibitions, and popularizer of art. He was known for his speed painting happenings in which he invited people to paint together. In 2005, in Bełchatów, he beat the Guinness World Record for the 24-hour-long-painting performance.
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Franciszek Strynkiewicz
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- sculptor
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Franciszek Strynkiewicz was a Polish sculptor. He submitted some of his work into an unknown category of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the "Statues" category of the art competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but did not win a medal.
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Teodor Rygier
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- artistsculptor
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Teodor Rygier was a Polish sculptor known especially for his Adam Mickiewicz Monument (1898) in Kraków, Poland. He was selected in the major competition by popular demand.
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Józef Mroszczak
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- graphic artistgraphic designerteacher
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Józef Mroszczak was a Polish graphic designer.
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Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designerart educatorteacher
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Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski was a Polish painter, woodcut artist and professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He studied painting with Tadeusz Pruszkowski, woodcut with Władysław Skoczylas and commercial art with Edmund Bartłomiejczyk.
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Jacek Sempoliński
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- draftspersonvisual artistpainterliterary critic
- Biography
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Jacek Sempoliński was a Polish painter, draftsman, art professor, critic, and essayist.
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Adam Kossowski
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- paintersculptor
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Adam Kossowski was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sącz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen.
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Wanda Telakowska
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- artistdesigner
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Wanda Telakowska was a Polish artist and the founder of Warsaw's Institute of Industrial Design.
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Modhir Ahmed
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- graphic artistpainterdraftsperson
- Biography
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Modhir Ahmed is an Iraqi-Swedish artist.
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Marian Wnuk
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Marian Wnuk was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Kasia Domanska
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- painter
- Biography
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Kasia Domanska is a Polish painter.
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Krystyna Dąbrowska
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Krystyna Dąbrowska was a Polish sculptor and painter, and a Warsaw Uprising insurgent. Her work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Barbara Zbrożyna
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- writerpainterpoetsculptor
- Biography
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Barbara Zbrożyna was a Polish sculptor, creator of figural sculptures, monuments, portraits, religious and sepulchral sculptures. Her style evolved from realism through the synthetic simplifications, expressive and metaphoric deformation, to abstraction. She was also a painter, drawer and poet. Awarded for achievements in arts by Solidarność (1984, 1989), awarded the Prize of Brat Albert Chmielowski (1986) and Prize of Polcul Foundation (1991).
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Monika Weiss
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- artistsculptor
- Biography
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Monika Weiss is a Polish-American contemporary artist based in New York City. She works primarily with Installation, video projection, performance, sound and drawing. Her transdisciplinary approach investigates relationships between body and history, and evokes ancient rituals of lamentation.
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Aneta Grzeszykowska
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- photographergraphic artistartist
- Biography
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Aneta Grzeszykowska is a Polish Artist.
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Bogna Burska
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- photographervisual artistpainterplaywright
- Biography
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Bogna Burska is a Polish playwright and visual artist known for installations, spatial photography and video. Her art is presented from a feminist perspective. Her initial painting compositions were narratives of congealed blood forms made with red paints applied by fingers on the walls, canvas and glass.
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Sławomir Ratajski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Sławomir Ratajski is a Polish painter and diplomat.
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Magdalena Wiecek
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Magdalena Więcek was a Polish sculptor and art teacher.
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Janusz Baldyga
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Janusz Bałdyga was born in 1954 in Lublin, Poland. He works as a performance artist and creates installations. In 1974, he started his studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and graduated in the studio of prof Stefan Gierowski in 1979. Bałdyga has been active in the fields of performance art, installations, objects and drawing since the beginning of his professional journey.
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Stefan Kiedrzyński
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Stefan Kiedrzyński was a Polish writer and essayist. He has published several novels and screenplays, mainly comedies.
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Ryszard Woźniak
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Ryszard Woźniak is a Polish painter, performer and teacher.
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Ryszard Grzyb
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Ryszard Henryk Grzyb, a Polish painter, poet, and graphic designer.
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Konrad Srzednicki
- Occupations
- graphic artistart educatorpainter
- Biography
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Konrad Srzednicki was a Polish painter and printmaker. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Cecylia Vetulani
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- restorerart historian
- Biography
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Cecylia Vetulani was a Polish art historian and conservator-restorer who did research mostly in the field of Warmia and Masuria folk art. She was a custodian of the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (1950–1956).
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Jerzy Onuch
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw
- In 1979 graduated with magister degree
- Occupations
- diplomatcontemporary artistcurator
- Biography
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Jerzy Onuch is a contemporary artist and curator. He has been working as an artist since the late 1970s, presenting performance and installation works in Europe and North America. From 2005 to 2010, he held the diplomatic post of Director of the Polish Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine. Between 2010 and 2014 he was the director of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.
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Irena Stankiewicz
- Occupations
- painterxylographer
- Biography
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Irena Stankiewicz is a Polish graphic artist.
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Resia Schor
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Resia Schor was a Polish-born artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1941 until her death in 2006.
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Anna Ziaja
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainter
- Biography
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Anna Ziaja is a Polish contemporary painter and print maker.
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Józef Gazy
- Years
- 1910-1998 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- artistsculptorconservator
- Biography
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Józef Gazy was a Polish artist, sculptor and restorer. Author of several monuments set in public space in various cities in Poland. In the 1960s he served as the leader of a team responsible for removal, maintenance, conservation and restoration of frescoes from the cathedral of Faras.
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Margherita Turewicz Lafranchi
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- artist
- Biography
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Małgorzata Turewicz Lafranchi is a visual artist. Born in Poland, since 1994 she has lived and worked in Bellinzona in the Ticino canton of Switzerland.
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Magda Bielesz
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Magda Bielesz – painter, author of installations, objects, drawings, videos.
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Jadwiga Hładki-Wajwódowa
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Jadwiga Salomea Hładki-Wajwódowa was a Polish artist. She competed in the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics. She was killed during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
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Ryszard Sroczyński
- Years
- 1905-1966 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Ryszard Sroczyński was a Polish painter and sculptor.
