Edward Manteuffel

Polish painter Edward Antoni Manteuffel-Szoege was married to graphic and poster artist Wanda Zawidzka (1906-94). His brother Tadeusz Julius Joseph (1902-70) became a well-known historian and expert on the Middle Ages in Poland, and his other brother Leon Edward (1904-73) was a surgery professor.

Manteuffel was a painter and graphic artist who studied at the Warszawa Academy of Fine Arts. He then worked on designing covers and magazines, was an illustrator of books, and produced decorations for exhibitions and project sites. During the 1930s he also studied in Leipzig and Berlin. He ran the graphic studio Mewa in Warszawa with Jadwiga Hładki and her husband Antoni Wajwód (1905-44). Manteuffel was a member of several artists’ associations as well as of a Masonic lodge. In 1939 he was captured and imprisoned by the Soviets, and was mysteriously murdered by the NKVD (Soviet interior ministry) in April or May 1940 in Kharkiv, the exact date of death not known. Most of his works were destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.