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Apr 20, 1918 Buzuluk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia Died on 23 Jan 1989 (aged 70)
Polish artist
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About Ludwik Konarzewski Junior
- Ludwik Konarzewski – junior (April 20, 1918 in Buzuluk – January 23, 1989 in Cieszyn) was a Polish painter, sculptor and teacher of fine arts who worked in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia.
- A square in Rydultowy is named after him. Konarzewski owed his primary artistic education to his father, Ludwik Konarzewski – senior.
- He started his studies (in painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1938, and finished in 1948, being interrupted by the Second World War.
- He studied under the direction of (among others) the following colourist painters: Wladyslaw Jarocki, Fryderyk Pautsch, Jerzy Fedkowicz, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Eugeniusz Eibisch and also, temporarily, Wojciech Weiss.
- He studied sculpture under Xawery Dunikowski and Stanislaw Horno-Poplawski.
- He created outdoor monuments such as the sculpture of Karol Miarka in Zabrze and Silesian Insurgents in Rydultowy. Konarzewski worked as a teacher in Rydultowy, near Rybnik for 30 years.
- He was a director of the state owned Art Centre that he set up with his father.
- He had an influence on the artistic and esthetic tastes of the local community – just as his father had done in Istebna in the period between the two wars. He is the creator of at least 1,000 oil paintings, numerous polychromes and artistic elements of church interiors and public buildings in Upper Silesia, and also in the regions around Kraków and Bialystok, as well as other places in Poland.Privately - he and his wife Joanna had three children: daughter Iwona Konarzewska – a portrait painter and two sons: Ludwik (an entrepreneur) and Lukasz.
