Famous People with Name Boleslaw

Boleslaw Biegas            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Biegas: was a Polish surrealist artist (painter and sculptor), best known for his "vampire-as-femme fatale" style of painting. Biegas was born in Koziczyn, Poland, and studied art under Konstanty Laszczka at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.The museum was established by Biegas in 1950, and contains his own paintings and sculpture, as well as those of other Polish arists active from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, including Olga Boznanska and Tadeusz Makowski. The museum occupies one room in the Bibliothèque Polonaise à Paris, which also houses the Musée Adam Mickiewicz and the Salon Frédéric Chopin. Guided visits are available Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings by prior appointment; an admission fee is charged.

Boleslaw Cybis            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Cybis: was a Polish painter, sculptor, and muralist.Cybis' paintings, sculptures, and murals won him recognition in Paris, Geneva, Munich, Frankfurt, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bucharest and Vienna. From 1926-1930 he was fascinated by the peasants of the country side whom he likened to 15th century medieval portraits of the masters. Over the next four years he painted a series of peasant portraits now in various museum collections. During the 1930's his work first appeared by invitation in fine art exhibits and museums in the United States, where Studio Magazine (Contemporary... Masters," April 1934) found his paintings "a striking example... reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci." In 1932 he lived in Tripoli, where some of his finest canvases were painted, and where he painted experimentally with cement. Over the next few years he exhibited paintings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and at museums in Chicago and Dayton, Ohio as well as in the International Exhibition of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. His ceiling mural was awarded the Grand Prix at the International "Art and Technique" in Paris.

Boleslaw Polnar            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Polnar: is a Polish graphic artist and painter.Although well endo-wed with all forms of art, it is painting, drawing and poster, which has become his artistic domain. Being well known in native Poland and abroad, he holds many awards, both domestic and foreign, springing from his rare talent and unique, unpretentious style. He has enjoyed his work being exhibited in galleries and museums long before his graduation from art school. Today, majority of his work can be found in various private collections thorough Europe and US as well as in some museums.

Boleslaw Limanowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Limanowski: was one of the first and one of the most outstanding Polish socialist politician, as well as historian and journalist.He began to be politically active during his studies in Vilnius and was arrested by Russian police in 1861 for expressing patriotic views. He was still in prison, when the January Uprising began in 1863, so he couldn’t take part in the fighting. Released from prison in 1867, he moved to Lviv, where he was working as a journalist, expressing socialist views and became the secretary to Rudolf Günsberg, Professor of Applied Chemistry for one year.

Boleslaw Roja            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Roja: was an officer of the Polish Legions in World War I, a general, and a politician in the Second Polish Republic. He opposed Józef Pilsudski and his Sanacja regime. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he was arrested by the Nazis and died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Ryszard Boleslawski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ryszard Boleslawski: was a Polish film director, actor and teacher of acting.