Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz

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Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz (1874-1932) was a Polish portrait, category and landscape painter, theatre director as well as author of several plays.

It enstammte the Polish land aristocracy. As Urahn a certain Piotr Dunin, that is considered to the family Dunin under king Bolesław III. in 12. Jh. from Denmark to Poland to have emigrated is. The later family Dunin Markiewicz originates from Kujawy and pulled after Nowogrodzkie. They had possessions in the Ukraine (Żywotówka, Jastrzębnice, Różyn). Kazimierz was married for the first time to Jadwiga Neyman († 1899). From this marriage a son, Stanisław Dunin Markiewicz was born.

Dunin Markiewicz studied jurisprudence at the university as well as painting at the Polish academy of the belle arts in Kiew starting in 1892. In 1895 he changed to the academy of arts in Paris, where he dedicated himself excluding the forming art. There he met in 1899 his second wife, who Irish Freiheitskämpferin Constance Markiewicz, nee Goore Booth, who he married on 29 September 1900 before-light. From this marriage the natural daughter Maeve Alys followed. From 1902 they lived in Dublin.

Of his pictures the largest part is in Dublin, some few are in Poland (Muzeum Narodowe in Krakau, private property among other things). His talent points itself particularly to the large Ölportraits of the two Polish presidents Piłsudski and Wojciechowski. The name of Dunin Markiewicz is particularly over its second wife, Constance Markiewicz of future generations admits remained. Toward end of its life Dunin Markiewicz for the American consulate was active in Warsaw, as well as correspondent for English magazines, like the Londoner DAILY NEWS. A work catalog to his literary like also bildnerischen work is still pending.