Ludwik Konarzewski-junior

He started his studies (in painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1938, and finished in 1948, being interrupted by the Second World War. He studied under the direction of (among others) the following colourist painters: Wladyslaw Jarocki, Fryderyk Pautsch, Jerzy Fedkowicz, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Eugeniusz Eibisch and also, temporarily, Wojciech Weiss. He studied sculpture under Xawery Dunikowski and Stanisław Horno-Popławski. He created outdoor monuments such as the sculpture of Karol Miarka in Zabrze and Silesian Insurgents in Rydułtowy. Konarzewski worked as a teacher in Rydułtowy, near Wodzisław Śląski for 30 years. He was a director of the state owned Art Centre that he set up with his father. He had an influence on the artistic and esthetic tastes of the local community – just as his father had done in Istebna in the period between the two wars. He is the creator of at least 1,000 oil paintings, numerous polychromes and artistic elements of church interiors and public buildings in Upper Silesia, and also in the regions around Kraków and Białystok, as well as other places in Poland. Privately – he and his wife Joanna had three children: daughter Iwona Konarzewska – a portrait painter and two sons: Ludwik (an entrepreneur) and Łukasz.

• Name — Ludwik Konarzewski (junior) • Born — 20 April 1918 • Birthplace — Buzuluk, Russian Empire • Died — 23 January 1989 • Place of death — Cieszyn, Poland • Field — Painting, sculpture • Movement — Neo-expressionism • Illustration — The self-portrait, Kraków 1942 • Illustration — The moment of the miner's rest, about 1950 • Illustration — The river in the summer

• Władysław Barański: “Beskid Śląski: przewodnik”, p. 249, Pruszków 2007 • Golec Józef, Bojda Stefania: Słownik biograficzny Ziemi Cieszyńskiej. T. 2. - Cieszyn,1995, p. 101-102, • Łukasz Konarzewski: Malarstwo rzeczywiste Ludwika Konarzewskiego-juniora (Factual painting of Ludwik Konarzewski-junior), „Znad Olzy” No 3 December/grudzień 1998, p. 4 • Nasz dziennik.pl, Związani z Ziemią Cieszyńską 2008, Nr 231 (3248) • Sylwetki twórców i popularyzatorów sztuki województwa bielskiego, [red. i oprac. haseł Zofia Bożek], Bielsko-Biała, 1987, p. 51-52, • Gniazdo na Buczniku („A nest on Bucznik”) – a documentary about the Konarzewski family, directed by Aleksandra Dendor, produced by Polish TV in 1993;

The works of Ludwik Konarzewski Jr. are part of the collections of the following institutions: The Museum of the History of Katowice (Muzeum Historii Katowic), The Beskid Museum in Wisła (Muzeum Beskidzkie w Wiśle) and in the artist’s house and studio in Istebna in Cieszyn Silesia.