Józef Czapski

Józef Czapski (born in 1896 with Prague, Czechoslovakia - died in 1993 with Houses-Laffitte, France) was an artist Polish, painter, writer, Critic Essayiste and art , which crossed the 20th almost whole century, and lived, during the Second world war, of the difficult moments in Soviet Union, where it fought as officer of the Polish army.

Biography

Born with Prague in a aristocratic family Polish, Józef Czapski passed its childhood in Bielorussia, then made studies of right to Saint-Pétersbourg and of Peinture to the Academy of the Art schools with Cracow.

Czapski was among the rare officers of the Polish Armée who survived the Massacre of Katyń in 1940. After the Agreements Sikorski-Mayski, he was the official representative of the Polish government to the research of the Polish officers missing in Soviet Union.

As a painter, Józef Czapski is known in particular for its adhesion with the Mouvement kapist, very influenced by Paul Cézanne, which it contributed to found with some friends, during its stay with Paris (1924 - 1933).

After the Second world war, Czapski lived in exile in France, with Houses-Laffitte, in the suburbs of Paris. It took part in the foundation of cultural monthly magazine Polish Kultura .

Pictorial works

Literary works

• 1960 : the Eye, tests on painting , ED. The Old one of Man, coll “Slavica - Writings on Art”, (Republication, Lausanne, 1982)
• 1987: Memories of Starobielsk , delivers memories written in 1945, Éditions Black on White -
• 1991: Tumult and Specters , transl. Therese Douchy, Editions Black on White -
• 1991: inhuman Ground , account one year of stay in the Soviet Union in war, ED. The Old one of Man, coll “unobtrusive Ways” -