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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Personal Details Name Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Place of Birth Warsaw, Poland Date of Birth February 24, 1885 Date of Death Died September 18, 1939 (age 54) Nationality Polish Field Writer; painter; dramatist; philosopher

Career:

   He had begun to support himself through portrait painting and continued to do on his return to Zakopane in Poland. He soon entered into a major creative phase, setting out his principles in New Forms in Painting and Introduction to the Theory of Pure Form in the Theatre. He associated with a group of "formist" artists in the early 1920s and wrote most of his plays during this period. Of about forty plays written by Witkiewicz between 1918 and 1925, twenty-one survive, and only Jan Maciej Karol Hellcat met with any public success during the author's lifetime. The original Polish manuscript of The Crazy Locomotive was also lost; the play, re-translated from two French versions, was not published until 1962.

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