Singular Spirit: Art and Life of Józef Czapski

UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture “A Singular Spirit: Józef Czapski, His Art and Life” by Eric Karpeles.
Czapski (1896-1993) was a painter, a writer and a Polish military officer who in vain searched for Polish officers infamously massacred at Katyn in WWII. He also wrote about his experience in the Gulag system and after the war, he became a co-founder of the Literature Institute in Paris, the publisher of Kultura.
Czapski witnessed the tumult of twentieth-century Europe first-hand, as a military officer, art and literary critic, disciplined chronicler of his own experiences, and above all, as a painter skilled at… read more here