Lucjan Kintopf

Lucjan Kintopf was a Polish painter, interior designer and educator who studied at the School of Decorative and Applied Arts in Warszawa and eventually specialized in artistic weaving. In the 1920s he studied pedagogy and in 1929 he graduated in interior design. In 1926 he was a co-founder and the first director of the ŁAD Artists’ Cooperative. From 1928 Kintopf also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa. In the 1930s he worked on the further development of looms. In World War II Kintopf took an active part in the Warszawa Uprising, surviving the war in a POW camp for officers in Germany.

In 1946 Kintopf returned home and became Professor and Faculty Director at the Department of Interior Architecture at the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught, among other things, material composition and interior design.

Kintopf’s entry was listed in the 1936 catalog under arts and crafts, a category that did not exist in the competition. He submitted his Jacquard design “hors concours”, however, so he was not forced to follow the competition categories. Orleta Olimpijskie (Olympic Eagles) from 1934 is one of Kintopf’s most famous patterns and can be seen today in the Central Textile Museum. The Jacquard fabric uses multicolored threads, thus simulating a 3-dimensional image of eagles on the 2-dimensional material.