Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) - a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher and an art theoretician. Witkacy was a visionary ahead of his times, and yet a concretely pungent prankster, whose cutting-egde judgement and catastrophic prophesies allow new generations to rediscover his work time and again. One of the few Polish artists whose significance for world art history endures the test of time. Hisfather, Stanislaw Witkiewicz was an acknowledged critic, writer, painter and architect, and the creator of the so-called Zakopane style.... Stanisław senior was a heated opponent of the schooling system which he thought abolished the students’ individuality, and he thus took charge of his son’s education himself. He organised private classes for him, often taught by university professors and prominent artists. He supported the boy’s own choices of what interested him. The young Witkiewicz had... [http://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-ignacy-witkiewicz-witkacy]