Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952) - Polish painter, art theoretician and educator, active in the Russian Empire and the Second Polish Republic. Counted among the pioneers of the Constructivist avant-garde in the interwar period, he was the author of the theory of Unism. He was born in the Russian partition, in Minsk to a Polish family. During his military service in the traction of the First World War, he suffered serious injuries, as a result of which he lost his arm, leg and vision in one eye. After the accident, he became more interested in art. After 1918, he began his education at the School of Fine Arts in Moscow, and served as an assistant to Kazimir Malevich at the School of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. During this period he established contacts with, among others, Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin. From 1921 or 1922, he lived with his newly married wife Katarzyna Kobro in the Second Polish Republic. He belonged to the members of the "Blok" grouping. He was a founding member of the art group "Praesens" and "a.r". From 1931 he was associated with Łódź. He was a co-founder of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź, from which he was interdisciplinarily dismissed in 1950 due to his political views. He died in oblivion in 1952.