Leon Chwistek (1884-1944)

Aliases: Leon Kazimierz Antoni Chwistek

Professions: Painter

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  Leon Chwistek, AKT KOBIETY, 1932 R.

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  Leon Kazimierz Antoni Chwistek, Portret Władysława Kazimierza Kumanieckiego, 1927 r.

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Leon Chwistek Biography

(b Kraków, 13 June 1884; d Barvish, nr Moscow, 20 Aug 1944). Polish painter, theoretician, philosopher and mathematician. He had little artistic training, spending half a year at the studio of Józef Mehoffer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1903–4) and studying drawing in Paris in 1913–14. He began exhibiting in 1917, but only in Poland. From 1906 he taught mathematics, first at a secondary school, then at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and from 1930 as Professor of Mathematical Logic at Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow (now Lviv, Ukraine). In 1941 while fleeing from the Germans he stayed in Tbilisi and then Moscow, where he associated with the Polish communist authorities.

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