Leszek Piasecki - Artist Info

About Leszek Piasecki

Name variants

Leszek Piasezcki, Leszek Piasezki, Leszek Plaseck
  • Biography from Auctionata

    Leszek Piasecki was born in Lvov, 1928. He attended the School of Applied Arts. Piasecki also received artistic training from Stanislaw Batowski and Zygmunt Rozwadowski.

    After that, he continued his studies in Katowice. Starting in 1951, he was a student of the Academy and trained by Ignacy Pienkowski, Fryderyk Pautsch, Jan Hoplinski and Jerzy Fedkowicz. Around the same time, Piasecki became acquainted with Jerzy Kossak, the son of the best Polish horse painter, Wojciech Kossak, and his future teacher.

    After graduating, he settled in Górny. From 1956 to 1962, Piasecki worked as a graphic artist for the magazine ‘Panorama’, while he also established himself as a history painter. In 1974, he emigrated with his family to Austria, where he settled in Vienna. Since then he has mainly focused on depictions of battle and horse scenes.

    Leszek Piasecki passed away in 1990.

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