Ignacy Pinkas
Polish, 1888-1935
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Ignacy Pinkas was a Polish painter.
At the age of eighteen, he and his family moved to Krakow, where he worked part-time doing various jobs, including he was an actor in a traveling theater. From childhood, he showed artistic talent, when in 1907 he painted a portrait of Archduke Franz Józef, the amount obtained from the sale allowed him a year later to become a free student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. His lecturers were Stanisław Dębicki and Jacek Malczewski, and after three years he left for Paris.
In 1912 he returned and joined the "Strzelec" Riflemen's Association. On August 17, 1914, he joined the 1st Brigade of the Polish Legions, and then fought in the ranks1st Artillery Regiment. After the formation of the Polish Auxiliary Corps, he joined its ranks, and then on February 14, 1918, he was interned in the camp in Witkowice. Throughout the course of the service, he created mainly portraits of commanders and comrades-in-arms.
In 1919, as a military cartoonist, he participated in the expedition of a division led by General Lucjan Żeligowski to Vilnius , while staying there he created a series of landscapes showing Vilnius and its suburbs. After 1920, Ignacy Pinkas focused on creativity, traveled to Prague, Warsaw, Lviv and Vilnius, as well as to the Baltic Sea and France. He was a member of the Artists 'Section of the Legionnaires' Union in Krakow. In 1930, the artist was diagnosed with tuberculosis , five years later, during his stay in a health resort in Bystra Śląska , the condition of Ignacy Pinkas deteriorated significantly. On July 17, 1935, he was transferred to Krakow, where he died on August 3.