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Ludomir Ludwik Dominik Benedyktowicz (15 August 1844 – 1/14 December 1926) was a Polish landscape painter, soldier, writer, and amateur chess player.
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Ludomir Ludwik Dominik Benedyktowicz (15 August 1844 – 1/14 December 1926) was a Polish landscape painter, soldier, writer, and amateur chess player.
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Biography He was born in Świniary. He attended primary school in Warsaw; then, in 1861, following in his father's footsteps, he went to the "Institute of Forest Management Practices" in Brok to study forestry with its founder, Professor Wojciech Jastrzębowski. He interrupted his studies to join the January Uprising, becoming a fighter in a partisan unit commanded by Władysław Cichorski. During a skirmish with a Cossack unit near Stare Kaczkowo, his right hand was cut off by a sword and his left arm was shattered by a bullet. He was later evacuated to the rectory in Ostrów Mazowiecka, where his arm had to be amputated. It was no longer possible to study forestry, so he decided to study art, beginning at the Warsaw School of Drawing with Wojciech Gerson. He painted with a metal ring of his own devising; attached to his right forearm, with screw-on clips to hold a brush, pen or piece of charcoal. Eventually, persecution of the uprising's participants intensified so, on the strength of his work with Gerson, he went to Munich and was allowed to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts. When he returned to Poland, he visited the gravesite of fellow insurgents who…
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Writings Stanisław Witkiewicz jako krytyk: jego pojęcia, zasady i teorye w malarstwie. Rozbiór krytyczny (Stanisław Witkiewicz as a critic...) Spólka Wydawnicza Polska, 1902 ("Nowa biblioteka uniwersalna" series) Full text @ Google Books.