Józef Czapski.
Polish artist, author, critic and Polish Army officer during WWII (1896-1993)
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About Józef Czapski
Józef Czapski was a Polish painter, author, and critic, as well as a major of the Polish Army reserves. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne. Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. Following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he was an official envoy of the Polish government searching for the missing Polish officers in Russia. After World War II, he remained in exile in the Paris suburb of Maisons-Laffitte, where he was among the founders of Kultura monthly, one of the most influential Polish cultural journals of the 20th century.
Everything about Józef Czapski →- Occupation
- painter, writer, literary critic, essayist
- Citizenship
- Poland, France
- Born
- April 3, 1896, April 3, 1893
- Died
- January 12, 1993, January 12, 1996