Stefan Filipkiewicz - Artist Info

About Stefan Filipkiewicz

  • Biography

    Stefan Filipkiewicz ( born July 28, 1879 in Tarnów, died August 23, 1944 at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp )

    He was a Polish painter and designer, notable for his landscapes created within the Young Poland movement. He was also a notable Polish representative of the art nouveau style.

    Secretary of the Civic Affairs Committee for the Care of Polish refugees in Budapest.

    In 1899, the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków organized the first exhibition of his landscapes of the Tatra Mountains and the region of Podhale. Between 1900 and 1908 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the tutorship of Józef Mehoffer, Leon Wyczólkowski, Jan Stanislawski and Józef Pankiewicz.

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