Marian Walentynowicz

Marian Walentynowicz studied at Warsaw University of Technology. The recorded working language is Polish. The field of work recorded is architecture, illustration and graphics. Employment is recorded with Warsaw University of Technology. Works named in the authority record are Koziołek Matołek. Work by Marian Walentynowicz is recorded in the collections of Oorlogs- en Verzetscentrum. Distinctions recorded are Cross of Valour.

• Name — Marian Walentynowicz • Birth Name — Marian Walentynowicz • Born — 20 August 1896 • Birthplace — St Petersburg, Russian Empire • Died — 26 August 1967 • Place of death — Warsaw, Poland • Field — Architecture, graphic art, children's comics, war correspondent • Training — Warsaw Polytechnic • Works — Koziołek Matołek

Walentynowicz studied Architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic. During the 1930s he taught at the Women's Architectural Academy in Warsaw (Żeńska Szkoła Architektury im. S. Noakowskiego). From the 1920s onwards he worked as an illustrator for various Warsaw publications. During the Second World War, he was the war correspondent attached to General Stanisław Maczek's First Panzer division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. While with the Polish Forces, Walentynowicz stayed in London prior to the Normandy landings. The army had a quandary what to do with a Lieutenant who was a qualified architect, with insufficient knowledge of war craft. 'Make me a general', he suggested laconically and promptly was turned into a journalist. His war memoirs were published as Wojna bez patosu, War without pathos in 1969.