Janusz Witwicki

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Janusz Witwicki (born September 10, 1903 in Lwow, died July 16, 1946 also in Lwow) was a Polish architect and art historian, creator of the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv.

Witwicki attended the VII Tadeusz Kosciuszko High School in Lwow, and in 1920 he volunteered to the Polish Army, to take part in the Polish-Soviet War. After the conflict, he studied architecture at the Lwow Polytechnic, which he graduated in 1926. Also, he studied history of art at the University of Jan Kazimierz, with extra courses taken in Paris and Rome.

Witwicki had his own office, he designed city of Lwow’s pavilion for the 1929 Poznan International Fair. In the same year, Witwicki started working on the deed of his life - the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv. For a few years, in the early 1930s, he moved to Torun, and then returned to Lwow, to take up the job of assistant at the Historical Architecture Department at the Lwow Polytechnic.

During World War Two, Witwicki continued his work on the Panorama, he was three times arrested by both Soviet and German occupiers. He was murdered by unknown perpetrators (possibly NKVD agents) on July 16, 1946. Witwicki was buried at the Lychakivskiy Cemetery.

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• Michal Witwicki - Panorama Plastyczna Dawnego Lwowa, Janusz Witwicki 1903-1946