Mieczyslaw Filipkiewicz - Artist Info

About Mieczyslaw Filipkiewicz

  • Biography

    Mieczyslaw Filipkiewicz was born in 1891 in Krakow. He was the brother of the painter Stefan Filipkiewicz. In the years 1910-1915 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with Stanislaw Debicki, Józef Pankiewicz and Teodor Axentowicz. Then he worked as a technical draftsman in the construction of a narrow-gauge railway in the territory of the former Kingdom of Poland and completed his education in Vienna. In 1921 he returned to the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he continued his studies under Wojciech Weiss until 1923. During his studies, Filipkiewicz received numerous awards and distinctions, including a bronze medal. He exhibited from 1925 with a group of unaffiliated artists, mainly at TPSP in Kraków. He was a member o...

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