Kazimierz Smuczak

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Kazimierz Smuczak

First name:

Kazimierz

Last Name:

Smuczak

Profession:

painter, pedagogue

Biography:

Kazimierz Smuczak, painter and educator, associated with Nałęczów for most of his life. He graduated from the Lviv Industrial School, and his master and long-time collaborator was Professor Jan Henryk Rosen. Together they painted ornaments and frescoes in numerous churches, including the Armenian Cathedral in Lviv and the chapel of King John III Sobieski on Kahlenberg. Smuczak co-created decorations in Castel Gandolfo, Lviv temples and other borderland towns. After the war, he settled in Jelenia Góra and then in Nałęczów, where he taught at the High School of Visual Arts. He died in the early 1990s.