Kazimierz Holewinski (1904 - 1957 ), Mariacki Square in Krakow, 1947

Origin
Rempex auction house, December 2017
private collection, Poland

Biography
Kazimierz Holewiński began his studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts (from 1932 the Academy) in 1923. He received his diploma in 1939. Among others, he studied under Prof. Leonard Pękalski, with whom he also collaborated from 1929 as a creator of church polychromies (chapel of the church in Radzymin, 1929-1930; church in Iwanowice, Kalisz district, 1934). He was the author of a polychrome design for the cathedral in Chelm, for which he won third prize in a competition in 1937. His last work in the field of monumental painting was a polychrome of the church in Przybyszewo on the Pilica River in 1956 (together with Waclaw Palessa). The second strand of his artistic activity was applied graphics. In 1937 he won first and second prize in the Polish Tobacco Monopoly competition for cigarette packaging. He worked at first as a teacher of advertising and drawing in vocational schools (1938-1945), and then as graphic manager of the weekly magazines "Polish Soldier" (1946-1952) and "Sportsman" (1952-1957).