86 Notable Alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1930-2017 (aged 87)
Occupations: artistarchitectural draftspersontextile artistdesigneruniversity teacher
Biography: 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.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Born in: Lithuania
Years: 1875-1911 (aged 36)
Occupations: paintercomposer
Biography: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.

Henryk Chmielewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1923-2021 (aged 98)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1950-1956
Occupations: drawergraphic designergraphic artistopinion journalistillustrator
Biography: Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski, also known under his pseudonym Papcio Chmiel, was a Polish comic book artist and journalist.

Krystyna Sienkiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1935-2017 (aged 82)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Krystyna Waleria Sienkiewicz was a Polish actress and singer.

Jonasz Kofta

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1942-1988 (aged 46)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1967
Occupations: writersongwriterpoetradio personalitylyricist
Biography: Jonasz Kofta, real name: Janusz Kofta was a Polish songwriter and a poet.

Roman Opałka

Born in: France
Years: 1931-2011 (aged 80)
Occupations: painterconceptual artistphotographerprintmaker
Biography: Roman Opałka was a French-born Polish painter, whose works are mostly associated with conceptual art.

Józef Czapski

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1896-1993 (aged 97)
Occupations: literary criticpainterwriteressayist
Biography: 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.

Antoni Słonimski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1895-1976 (aged 81)
Occupations: science fiction writerwriterpainteropinion journalistjournalist
Biography: 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.

Antoni Krauze

Born in: Poland
Years: 1940-2018 (aged 78)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Antoni Krauze was a Polish screenwriter and director.

Władysław Podkowiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1866-1895 (aged 29)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Władysław Podkowiński was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period.

Tomasz Lipiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: singerdesignercomposer
Biography: 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.

Jerzy Duszyński

Born in: Russia
Years: 1917-1978 (aged 61)
Occupations: actor
Biography: 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.

Hanna Bakuła

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Hanna Bakuła is a Polish painter, scenographer and Playboy's columnist.

Lech Majewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: photographerfilm editortheatrical directorvideo artistfilm director
Biography: Lech Majewski is a Polish film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.

Józef Pankiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1866-1940 (aged 74)
Occupations: painteruniversity teachergraphic artist
Biography: Józef Pankiewicz was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France.

Allan Starski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: scenographer
Biography: Allan Mieczysław Starski is a Polish Oscar-winning production designer and set decorator.

Władysław Hasior

Born in: Poland
Years: 1928-1999 (aged 71)
Occupations: sculptorpainter
Biography: Władysław Hasior was one of the leading Polish contemporary sculptors connected with the Podhale region. He was also a painter and theatre set designer.

Feliks Falk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Occupations: film directorscreenwritertheatrical directordirector
Biography: 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.

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Born in: Poland
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: conceptual artisthistorianuniversity teachertelevision producerphotographer
Biography: 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.

Honorat Koźmiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1829-1916 (aged 87)
Occupations: Catholic priestreligiousCatholic theologian
Biography: 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.

Wojciech Siudmak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1942-.. (age 82)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Wojciech Kazimierz "Wojtek" Siudmak is a Polish painter, currently living in France. He was a student at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 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.

Nil Khasevych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1905-1952 (aged 47)
Occupations: painter
Biography: 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.

Eryk Lipiński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1908-1991 (aged 83)
Occupations: graphic artistdesignerdrawercaricaturist
Biography: 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.

Dea Trier Mørch

Born in: Denmark
Years: 1941-2001 (aged 60)
Occupations: writergraphic artist
Biography: Dea Trier Mørch was a Danish artist and writer. She gained fame in 1976 with Vinterbørn, translated into English as Winter's Child.

Katarzyna Kozyra

Born in: Poland
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: video artistartistperformance artistsculptorphotographer
Biography: 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.

Stanisław Masłowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1853-1926 (aged 73)
Occupations: painterillustratordrawer
Biography: Stanisław Masłowski was a Polish painter of realistic style, the author of watercolor landscapes.

Józef Gosławski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1908-1963 (aged 55)
Occupations: designersculptorcaricaturist
Biography: 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.

Henryk Tomaszewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1914-2005 (aged 91)
Occupations: graphic designerpaintergraphic artistillustratorteacher
Biography: Henryk Tomaszewski was an award-winning poster artist and the "father" of the Polish Poster School.

Jacques Hnizdovsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1915-1985 (aged 70)
Occupations: sculptorgraphic artistart historianetcherpostage stamp designer
Biography: Jacques Hnizdovsky, (1915–1985) was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor.

Tadeusz Baranowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1969
Occupations: paintercomics artistdrawer
Biography: Tadeusz Baranowski is a Polish comic book artist. He published his first comic in 1975 in Świat Młodych. 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.

Szarlota Pawel

Born in: Poland
Years: 1947-2018 (aged 71)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1974
Occupations: paintercomics artist
Biography: Szarlota Pawel; actual name, Eugenia Joanna Pawel-Kroll was a Polish comic book artist, creator of the popular series about "Kleks".

Paweł Althamer

Born in: Poland
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: visual artistperformance artistinstallation artistsculptorartist
Biography: Paweł Althamer is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art.

Joanna Rajkowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: video artist
Biography: 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.

Nathan Rapoport

Born in: Poland
Years: 1911-1987 (aged 76)
Occupations: sculptorpainter
Biography: Nathan Rapoport was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.

Nadia Léger

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1904-1982 (aged 78)
Occupations: paintermosaicist
Biography: 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.

Feliks Topolski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1907-1989 (aged 82)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Feliks Topolski RA was a Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman working primarily in the United Kingdom.

Aleksander Sochaczewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1843-1923 (aged 80)
Occupations: painter
Biography: 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.

Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska

Born in: United Kingdom
Years: 1905-1992 (aged 87)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Zofia Wojciechowska-Grabska was a Polish painter. She was the daughter of President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski and First Lady Maria Wojciechowska.

Bronisław Wojciech Linke

Born in: Estonia
Years: 1906-1962 (aged 56)
Occupations: paintergraphic artistcaricaturist
Biography: Bronisław Wojciech Linke,, was a Polish painter and graphic artist noted for his metaphorical realism in his depiction of human destructiveness.

Ewa Kuryluk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations: art historianart criticwriterpainterphotographer
Biography: 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.

Mieczyslaw Szcuka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1898-1927 (aged 29)
Occupations: typographersculptorpainterphotographer
Biography: Mieczysław Szczuka was a Polish avant-garde artist and mountaineer.

Jan Mlodozeniec

Born in: Poland
Years: 1929-2000 (aged 71)
Occupations: visual artistpaintergraphic artistdesignergraphic designer
Biography: Jan Młodożeniec was a Polish graphic designer. He worked in posters, drawing, book and publication design, and illustration.

Chaim Goldberg

Born in: Poland
Years: 1917-2004 (aged 87)
Occupations: sculptorpainter
Biography: 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, began to draw what he saw as the recurring art colony atmosphere became the highpoint of his self actualization dreams seeing himself become an artist like the ones 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.

Piotr Uklański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: painternew media artistdirectorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Piotr Uklański is a contemporary Polish-American artist who has produced art since the mid 1990s which have explored themes of spectacle, cliche, 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.

Ewa Partum

Born in: Poland
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: performance artistfilmmakerprintmakerphotographerconceptual artist
Biography: Ewa Partum is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist.

Józef Szermentowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1833-1876 (aged 43)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1852-1857
Occupations: painter
Biography: Józef Szermentowski, or Szermętowski, was a Polish landscape painter, influenced by the Barbizon School.

Lubomir Tomaszewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1923-2018 (aged 95)
Occupations: painterdesignersculptor
Biography: Lubomir Wojciech Tomaszewski was a Polish-American painter, sculptor and designer born in Warsaw, Poland. He lived in United States since 1966.

Jeremi Kubicki

Born in: Poland
Years: 1911-1938 (aged 27)
Occupations: painter
Biography: 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 by shooting himself in 1938.

Franciszek Kostrzewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1826-1911 (aged 85)
Occupations: painterillustratorcaricaturist
Biography: Franciszek Kostrzewski was a Polish illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, comics artist and painter in the Realistic style.

Romuald Gutt

Born in: Poland
Years: 1888-1974 (aged 86)
Occupations: urban planneruniversity teacherarchitect
Biography: Romuald Gutt was a Polish architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Henryk Kuna

Born in: Poland
Years: 1879-1945 (aged 66)
Occupations: sculptorpainter
Biography: 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.

Karol Tchorek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1904-1985 (aged 81)
Occupations: sculptor
Biography: 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.

Krzysztof Bednarski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: sculptorscenographervisual artist
Biography: Krzysztof Michał Bednarski is a contemporary Polish-Italian sculptor.

Krzysztof Jung

Born in: Poland
Years: 1951-1998 (aged 47)
Occupations: paintergraphic designer
Biography: Krzysztof Jung was a Polish painter, graphic artist, performer, teacher and creator of the conception of the Plastic Theatre.

Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1942-2016 (aged 74)
Occupations: painter
Biography: 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.

Zeev Ben-Zvi

Years: 1904-1952 (aged 48)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1920-1923
Occupations: pedagoguesculptor
Biography: Zeev Ben-Zvi was a Polish-Israeli sculptor born in Ryki, Poland, whose work influenced a generation of sculptors.

Teodor Rygier

Born in: Poland
Years: 1841-1919 (aged 78)
Occupations: sculptorartist
Biography: 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.

Franciszek Strynkiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1893-1996 (aged 103)
Occupations: sculptor
Biography: 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.

Józef Mroszczak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1910-1975 (aged 65)
Occupations: graphic designergraphic artistteacher
Biography: Józef Mroszczak was a Polish graphic designer.

Jacek Sempoliński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1927-2012 (aged 85)
Occupations: literary criticpaintervisual artistdrawer
Biography: Jacek Sempoliński was a Polish painter, draftsman, art professor, critic, and essayist.

Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1900-1947 (aged 47)
Occupations: graphic designerpaintergraphic artistcarverteacher
Biography: 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.

Adam Kossowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1905-1986 (aged 81)
Occupations: sculptorpainter
Biography: 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.

Modhir Ahmed

Born in: Iraq
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Modhir Ahmed is an Iraqi-Swedish artist.

Kasia Domanska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Kasia Domanska is a Polish painter.

Marian Wnuk

Born in: Poland
Years: 1906-1967 (aged 61)
Occupations: sculptor
Biography: Marian Wnuk was a Polish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Monika Weiss

Born in: Poland
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: sculptorartist
Biography: 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.

Barbara Zbrożyna

Born in: Poland
Years: 1923-1995 (aged 72)
Occupations: sculptorpoetpainterwriter
Biography: 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).

Bogna Burska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: playwrightpaintervisual artistphotographer
Biography: 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.

Sławomir Ratajski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1979
Occupations: painter
Biography: Sławomir Ratajski is a Polish painter and diplomat.

Aneta Grzeszykowska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: Studied in 1999
Occupations: graphic artistphotographerartist
Biography: Aneta Grzeszykowska is a Polish Artist.

Magdalena Wiecek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1924-2008 (aged 84)
Occupations: sculptor
Biography: Magdalena Więcek was a Polish sculptor and art teacher.

Janusz Baldyga

Born in: Poland
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: artistpainter
Biography: 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.

Ryszard Woźniak

Born in: Poland
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Ryszard Woźniak is a Polish painter, performer and teacher.

Stefan Kiedrzyński

Born in: Poland
Years: 1888-1943 (aged 55)
Occupations: writer
Biography: Stefan Kiedrzyński was a Polish writer and essayist. He has published several novels and screenplays, mainly comedies.

Ryszard Grzyb

Born in: Poland
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Ryszard Henryk Grzyb, a Polish painter, poet, and graphic designer.

Konrad Srzednicki

Born in: Poland
Years: 1894-1993 (aged 99)
Occupations: painterart educatorgraphic artist
Biography: 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.

Cecylia Vetulani

Born in: Poland
Years: 1908-1980 (aged 72)
Occupations: art historianrestorer
Biography: 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).

Jerzy Onuch

Born in: Poland
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw: In 1979 graduated with magister degree
Occupations: contemporary artistdiplomatcurator
Biography: 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.

Irena Stankiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1925-.. (age 99)
Occupations: xylographerpainter
Biography: Irena Stankiewicz is a Polish graphic artist.

Resia Schor

Born in: Poland
Years: 1910-2006 (aged 96)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Resia Schor was a Polish-born artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1941 until her death in 2006.

Anna Ziaja

Born in: Poland
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: paintergraphic artist
Biography: Anna Ziaja is a Polish contemporary painter and print maker.

Józef Gazy

Years: 1910-1998 (aged 88)
Occupations: sculptorartistconservator
Biography: 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.

Magda Bielesz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Magda Bielesz – painter, author of installations, objects, drawings, videos.

Margherita Turewicz Lafranchi

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: artist
Biography: 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.

Jadwiga Hładki-Wajwódowa

Born in: Poland
Years: 1904-1944 (aged 40)
Occupations: visual artist
Biography: 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.

Ryszard Sroczyński

Years: 1905-1966 (aged 61)
Occupations: sculptorpainter
Biography: Ryszard Sroczyński was a Polish painter and sculptor.