Witold Wojtkiewicz

Witold Wojtkiewicz (1879, Warsaw - 1909, Warsaw) was a Polish painter. He started his education at the Warsaw Drawing School in 1898 and continued at the Academy in Kraków. His original and inventive work anticipated Polish Expressionism. Wojtkiewicz offer employed grotesque motifs and irony in his work. He admired the modernist paintings of Stanisław Wyspiański and Jacek Malczewski. He reflected the ideas of Romantic poets such as Cyprian Norwid and authors such as Stanisław Przybyszewski and Edward Abramowski, the originators of Expressionist manifestos. He also worked as an illustrator and postcard designer. One of his most famous works was a watercolour entitled "Spring is Approaching."

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* [http://www.artnet.com/library/09/0920/T092003.asp ArtNet]
* [http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Wojtkiewicz/Index.htm Wojtkiewicz Paintings]