1. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

2. 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. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.

3. Witkiewicz was home-schooled and encouraged to develop his talents
Witkiewicz was home-schooled and encouraged to develop his talents. In 1903, Witkiewicz passed an external baccalaurate exam in Lviv. In 1904 Witkacy travelled to Italy through Vienna and Munish visiting every art gallery he found on his way. A year later, against his father's advice, he took up studies at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts.
Witkacy commited a suicide on 18 September 1939 after hearing the news of the Soviet Invasion of Poland.

4. Self-portrait of Stanisław Witkiewicz

5. PURE FORM
After the studies he soon entered into a major creative phase called PURE FORM in paintings and theatre. He associated with a group of "formist" artists in the early 1920s and wrote most of his plays. He created a lot of fantastic paintings at this time.

6. Wood Chopping

7. FANTASTIC COMPOSITIONS

8. St. ANTHONY’S TEMPTATION

9. After 1925 he named himself 'Witkacy'
There were 5 types of portraits he used to create

10. PORTRAIT OF JULIAN TUWIM
TYPE A -the person was introduced very truly without any elements of caricature.

11. PORTRAIT OF STEFANIA TUWIOMOWA
TYPE B – the person was painted very closely but with some typical features of his/her appearance

12. PORTRAIT OF JAROSLAW AND ANNA IWASZKIEWICZ
TYPE C and D – Witkacy painted them during meetings and parties with friends and the portraits were full of caricatural and abstractional elements

13. PORTRAIT OF MICHAŁ CHOROMANSKI ON A LONG NECK
One of the most interesting portraits by Witkacy
Drew in pastels in 1928, nowadays it is in National Museum in Warsaw
During the act of painting Witkacy didn’t want to create a real portrait of the person. He focused on his own emotions that’s why in the painting we can find elements of groteska and surrealism

14. PORTRAIT OF NENA STACHURSKA
TYPE E – these portraits were called PURE FORM and their main feature was discreation

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