Famous People with Name Boleslaw

Boleslaw Józef Habowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Józef Habowski: was a Polish soccer player from interwar period, representing Wisla Kraków and Polish national football team.Habowski's debut in the National Team occurred on October 10, 1937 in Warsaw (Poland - Yugoslavia 4-0). His second and last game in white-red jersey took place in Riga, September 25, 1938 (Latvia - Poland 2-1) scoring a goal in the match.

Boleslaw Orlinski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Orlinski: was a Polish aviator, military, sports and test pilot.During the World War I he was commissioned in the Russian Army, fought in infantry on the German front and became NCO. In 1918 he joined the newly formed Polish 1st Corps of Gen. Józef Dowbór-Musnicki. When the corps was disarmed by the Germans in May 1918, he got to Ukraine and, for a short time, served in the army of Ukrainian People's Republic. He returned to Poland after it regained independence and joined the newly formed Polish Army. He served in the cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war, then he volunteered for the air force.

Boleslaw Barbacki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Boleslaw Barbacki: was a Polish painter.

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.

Ryszard Boleslawski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

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