Włodzimierz Bartoszewicz was a painter, graphic artist, cartoonist and illustrator. He first studied law in Poznań and from 1923 art in Warszawa, under Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Władysław Skoczylas, amongst others. Bartoszewicz later produced mainly animated cartoons, but also painted religious and historical themes, landscapes and still lifes. From 1939 he lived in Kielce, and from 1948 in Poznań. He was the son of Joachim Bartoszewicz (1867-1938), one of the political leaders of national parties around the fin-de-siècle in Poland.
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