Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
| Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz | |
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| Born |
24 February 1885 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 18 September 1939 (aged 54) Jeziory, Poland |
| Pen name | Witkacy |
| Occupation | Writer, painter, dramatist, philosopher |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Kraków Academy of Fine Arts |
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| Spouse | Jagwida Unrug, m.1923 |
| Partner | Jadwiga Janczewska |
| Relatives |
Father: Stanisław Witkiewicz Godmother: Helena Modjeska Father-in-law: Juliusz Kossak |
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish: [staˈɲiswaf iɡˈnat͡sɨ vitˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; 24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, playwright, novelist, and photographer active in the interwar period.
Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.
Witkiewicz was reared at the family home in Zakopane. In accordance with his father's antipathy to the "servitude of the school," the boy was home-schooled and encouraged to develop his talents across a range of creative fields.
Witkiewicz was close friends with Karol Szymanowski and, from childhood, with Bronisław Malinowski and Zofia Romer. Following a crisis in Witkiewicz's personal life due to the suicide of his fiancée Jadwiga Janczewska, he was invited by Malinowski to act as draftsman and photographer on a 1914 expedition to Oceania, a venture that was interrupted by the onset of World War I. A happen-stance citizen of the Russian Empire, Witkiewicz went to St Petersburg and was commissioned as an officer in the Imperial army. His ailing father, a Polish patriot, was deeply grieved by the youngster's decision and died in 1915 without seeing his son again.
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