Famous People with Name Eligiusz

Eligiusz Niewiadomsk            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Eligiusz Niewiadomsk: (Warsaw, December 1, 1869 – January 31, 1923, Warsaw) was a Polish modernist painter and art critic who belonged to the right-wing National Democracy till 1904[1] and later supported it.

Eligiusz Niewiadomski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Eligiusz Niewiadomski: was a Polish modernist painter and art critic who belonged to the right-wing National Democratic Party till 1904[1] and later continued supporting it. In 1922 he assassinated Poland's first President, Gabriel Narutowicz.After 1897, he taught drawing at the Warsaw Polytechnic. He also collaborated with a number of Warsaw-based magazines and newspapers as a journalist and art critic, which gave him considerable notoriety, mostly among the artists themselves. He became involved in various artistic movements, among them the "re-discovery" of the Tatra Mountains, which at the time attracted some of the most renowned Polish painters, poets and writers as a source of inspiration. Niewiadomski prepared and published a map of the Tatras, one of the first tourist maps of the area. He also prepared a set of historical maps of Poland, Album of the History of Poland (1899). He also became involved in the reorganization of the Zacheta art society. Using contacts acquired there,