Włodzimierz Szymanowicz (born

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

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; September 3, 1946 – March 4, 1967) was a Polish

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

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. He was the son of Jadwiga, a Polish

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, and Kazimierz Szymanowicz who was Polish of Jewish descent. Szymanowicz is known mostly for his poems, including one in which is included lyrics to a popular song composed years after his death (''Zaproście mnie do stołu'', which won an award at the

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in 1974). While none of his poems were published while he was alive, many survive and some have been published posthumously.

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20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists 1946 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Polish poets Polish male painters 1967 suicides Suicides in Poland {{Poland-poet-stub