KRUCZKOWSKA Maria - Visual Panorama of Lviv. The city of fame. Photo arch. Janusz Witwicki (1903-1946)

KRUCZKOWSKA Maria - Visual panorama of Lviv. The city of fame. SS. 55-60. height: 31.2 cm. Hardcover, contemporary.
Attached to the notebook is a photograph depicting Janusz Witwicki (1903-1946), taken in the Lvov ateliere Lena. The photograph measures 13.7 x 8.5 cm. Portrayed person shown in bust.

Janusz Witwicki (1903-1946) - architect, art historian, creator of the famous Panorama of Old Lviv. He was the son of Wladyslaw Witwicki (1878-1948), psychologist, painter, translator of Plato. Witwicki designed many projects during the Second Republic, such as the pavilion of the city of Lviv at the PWK in Poznań in 1929.
Janusz Witwicki began work on the panorama as early as 1928 and continued until his tragic death in 1946. After 1945 he made efforts to transport the Panorama from the USSR to the People's Republic of Poland. After obtaining the necessary approvals (with great opposition from representatives of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences), Witwicki was assassinated, most likely by NKVD agents, already in the process of preparing for the departure. The object was secretly taken away by his wife,
The Visual Panorama of Old Lviv was the life's work of Janusz Witwicki, whose efforts to export it paid with his life.