{"id":1971,"name":"Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz)","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"witkacy-stanislaw-ignacy-witkiewicz","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.witkacy.org","twitter":null,"category_id":28,"date_of_birth":"1895-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Stanisław Ignacy","lastname":"Witkiewicz","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz)","date_of_death":"1939-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00","cached_name_asc":"Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz)","stream_count_app":19,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/476/large/Witkacy_Autoportret_1938.jpg?1354743716","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":3,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz](http://www.witkacy.org) more commonly known as \"Witkacy\" was a Polish playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and philosopher. The mysterious suicide of his fiancé in 1914 compelled him to seek solace in Australasia where he became involved in scientific expeditions. On hearing of the outbreak of WWI he returned to Poland and served with distinction against the Germans before being wounded and continuing his descent into the depression that was to dominate his life. As he plunged into heavy spells of morphine, cocaine and peyote abuse his paintings became all the more inspired. Twisted portraits of his high-society friends (heads springing from penises, beastly animal shapes flying in the background) became his trademark. He experimented with all forms of modern art, started his own theatre company in Zakopane (an hour south of Kraków) and expanded on his philosophical theories. A rabid anti-communist, Witkacy was hell-bent on proving that an individual’s aims would always be different from that of society and state. When the Red Army crossed into Poland on October 17, 1939, sensing the end of civilisation, he shot himself. Originally buried in a far-flung corner of the Ukraine, Witkacy’s body was returned to Zakopane in 1988. But in a scene that wouldn’t have been amiss in one of his satires, it eventually emerged that bungling officials had buried the wrong corpse – the subject at the centre of the excellent Polish film *Mystyfikacja*.\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz](http://www.witkacy.org), beter bekend als \"Witkacy\", was een Poolse toneelschrijver, romancier, schilder, fotograaf en filosoof. De mysterieuze zelfmoord van zijn verloofde in 1914 deed hem troost gaan zoeken in Nieuw-Guinea, waar hij meedeed aan wetenschappelijke expedities. Bij de start van WOI keerde hij terug naar Polen en diende hij, met onderscheiding, tegen de Duitsers. Hij raakte gewond, en alsmaar dieper in de depressie die de rest van zijn leven zou beheersen. Terwijl hij dook in hevige morfinedromen, cocaïne- en peyotegebruik werden zijn schilderijen alsmaar creatiever. Verwrongen portretten van zijn high-society-vrienden werden zijn handelsmerk (hoofden die uit penissen groeiden, beestachtige figuren vliegend op de achtergrond). Hij experimenteerde met verschillende vormen van moderne kunst, begon zijn eigen theatergezelschap in Zakopane (een uur ten zuiden van Krakau) en zette zijn filosofische theorieën uiteen. Witkacy was een vurig anti-communist en was erop gebrand om te bewijzen dat de doelstellingen van een individu altijd zouden verschillen van die van de samenleving en de staat. Toen het Rode Leger Polen binnenviel op 17 oktober 1939 voelde hij het einde van de beschaving naderen, en schoot hij zichzelf dood. Oorspronkelijk werd hij begraven in een uithoek van Oekraïne, maar in 1988 werd Witkacy’s lichaam teruggebracht naar Zakopane. In een scene die niet had misstaan in een van zijn eigen satires, bleek uiteindelijk dat slordige ambtenaren het verkeerde lijk hadden begraven (wat ook het onderwerp vormt voor de uitstekende Poolse film *Mystyfikacja*).  "},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"Poland","place":"Zakopane","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}