Kamil Mackiewicz
Polish, 1886-1931
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Initially, he studied in Moscow, and from 1905 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under Konrad Krzyzanowski. He completed his art studies in London and New York. During World War I, he was called up as an officer to the Russian army, he was wounded and stayed in a German POW camp until the end of the war. After returning to Warsaw, he worked for Konrad Krzyzanowski in his private School of Painting and Drawing. During the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920, in which he participated as a soldier, he made banners, posters and other prints for the Central Propaganda Committee.
He was discharged from the army with the rank of captain and around 1923 he left New York, where he worked as an illustrator. After his return, he lived in Warsaw, and for the last 3 years of his life he stayed with Józef Tyszkiewicz at the Dusmieowicze estate. He was a hunter and a storyteller, known in wide social circles. He traveled a lot, incl. to the Caucasus, France, the Netherlands, Africa and the USA. The mainstream of his work was drawing and illustration. He collaborated with numerous magazines, incl. in the years 1918-1921 with the Lviv-based Szczutek, in which in 1919 he published a kind of comic book with texts by Stanislaw Wasylewski. He often took up the subject of war and military, as well as hunting. He illustrated numerous books for adults and children.