Stefan Filipkiewicz (b.1879 Tarnów - d.1944 Mauthausen-Gusen) | 4176

Stefan Filipkiewicz was a Polish painter and graphic artist, a landscape painter. He studied at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts under, among others, Józef Mehoffer and Leon Wyczółkowski. The artist was a representative of the "landscape school" of Stanisławski.  He often painted the landscape of the Tatra Mountains and Podhale. He also dealt with graphic art, illustration and design of posters and medals. He died in August 1944 in Mauthausen, a Nazi concentration camp.