Longin ADAMIECKI, Girl with a blue bow

Pastel, paper, 66 x 46 cm, signed l.d.: Adamiecki, for conservation.

Painter, born March 15, 1914 in Ząbkowice, active in the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie region. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, continued his studies after World War II, and in the academic year 1944/1945 studied at the fourth year of the Faculty of Painting. His works were exhibited in Dabrowa Górnicza in October 1945. Among other things, he did scenographic designs for Silesian theaters and painted portraits. He died tragically, shot by Soviet soldiers during an attempt to take away his briefcase with drawings and sketches, while traveling by train to his hometown of Ząbkowice Będzin.