Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy (1885-1939), was born in Warsaw, the only son of the painter and critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. He was educated outside any school, then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. During the Great War, as a subject of the tsar, he served in the Imperial Guard in Saint Petersburg. From 1918 to 1926 he wrote some thirty plays, about twenty of which have come down to us, while running a portrait business. He took his own life on 18 September 1939 at Jeziory, in Polesia, on hearing the news of the Red Army's entry into Poland.

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• TheatreThe ShoemakersSzewcyStanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) · 1934LiteraturePublic domain