Rafał Malczewski

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Rafał Malczewski

Ottawa | Canada

First name:

Rafał

Last Name:

Malczewski

Date of birth:

24-10-1892

Place of birth:

Kraków

Date of death:

15-02-1965

Place od death:

Montreal

Age:

Profession:

writer, painter

Biography:

Rafał Malczewski (1892-1965), Polish landscape and portrait painter, writer and publicist living in Montreal, son of Jacek Malczewski. He studied at the University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He was a mountaineer and a great admirer of Podhale and Zakopane. During the Second World War, he travelled to Brazil and from there arrived in Canada in 1942, where he managed to persuade the Canadian railways CPR to sponsor his travels across Canada in exchange for some of the paintings he had painted. This agreement resulted in more than a hundred paintings of Canadian landscapes. Author of many exhibitions and author of several books, including his memoirs about the Tatra Mountains, climbing and Zakopane. He died in Montreal and is buried in the Notre-Dame-Des-Neiges cemetery (Quebec).

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