![]() Petersburg and a year later he wrote his first philosophical essays "On Dualism" and "Schopenhauer's Philosophy and His Relations to His Predecessors". As an adolescent, he developed close friendships with the future mathematician Leon Chwistek, the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and the composer Karol Szymanowski. In 1893, aged only eight, he wrote his first work, Karaluchy (The Cockroaches), which was printed by him on a small personal press. At the age of six, Ignacy began to play the piano, paint, and to write his own plays. His father, Stanislaw, was a painter, writer and architect who designed a type of chalet commonly known as “Zakopane style.” The prodigious Stanislaw Ignacy was educated at home by his father and private tutors. In 1890, the whole family moved to Zakopane (in Austrian partition of Poland) that was then an important cultural center. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz was born to a family of poor landed gentry. "Witkacy", painter, playwright, writerīorn: February 24, 1885, Warsaw, Russian partition of Poland (presently Poland)ĭied: September 18, 1939, Jeziory, Poland Early days. Prominent Poles Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz a.k.a. ![]()
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