Czesław Idźkiewicz
Polish artist
Died when: 61 years 103 days (735 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Czeslaw Idzkiewicz (October 21, 1889 – February 1, 1951), was a Polish landscape painter and art teacher.He was born in Rózan, Poland to Piotr and Aleksandra née Magnuszewska.
Idzkiewicz was one of six children of the local organist Piotr Idzkiewicz.He went to school in Pultusk nearby.Between 1908 and 1912 Idzkiewicz studied drawing and painting at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
At the same time he assisted in the painting of frescoes at Plock Cathedral.In 1912 he went to Antwerp to study at the Academie Royale de Beaux Arts, and in 1913 and 1914 he continued his studies in Kraków at the Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Józef Mehoffer and Józef Pankiewicz.
During the First World War, the principal painter of the Masovian Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral in Plock, Wladyslaw Drapiewski, was exiled, and Idzkiewicz continued the work on the royal chapel there on his own.
He made a living as teacher of fine arts at the local preparatory school and subsequently obtained high-school educator certification.
After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the entire collection of oil paintings by Idzkiewicz was stolen by the Nazis and shipped to Germany.
It was never recovered; only a few of his artworks remain.He was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
Idzkiewicz survived the war, and settled back in Plock.He worked as an educator until his unexpected death on February 1, 1951, at the age of 61.
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