Włodzimierz Zakrzewski

Włodzimierz Zakrzewski lived from 1916 to 1992. He was born in St. Petersburg, then his family moved to Poland, where he started going to school in Bielsk Podlaski. He belonged to communist organizations, for which he was sentenced to 3 years in prison in 1934. He took drawing lessons first in junior high school, and then at the School of Decorative Arts and Painting in Warsaw.

During World War II he was in Moscow, where he made propaganda posters for the Red Army. 

After returning to Poland, he served as the head of the Front Poster Studio of the Polish People's Army (1944–1948). In the years 1945–1948 he was a member of the Polish Workers' Party, and from 1948 he joined the Polish United Workers' Party. In the years 1950–1952 he was a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In the following years he devoted himself entirely to painting, and after 1956 he practiced post-impressionism. He traveled a lot, including: to Italy, France, the United States - then landscapes and vedutes were created from many visited cities. He was a member of the Realist Group.

Main works: The Giant and the Spit-Up Dwarf of Reaction (1945), Comrade Bierut among the Workers (1950)