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Władysław Strzemiński’s “Life before Life”

The book by Iwona Luba and Ewa Paulina Wawer titled Władysław Strzemiński – Always Avant-Garde: Unknown Biography, a Reconstruction (–) is the latest publication of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.

Its overarching goal is to shed life on Strzemiński’s childhood and adolescence, on the life of this iconic personality of Polish avant-garde before he moved to Poland.

Following numerous desk studies conducted, inter alia, in Russian military archives, authors reveal not just unknown facts about, e.g., Strzeminski’s participation in World War I but they also put forward bold hypotheses concerning his disability and death.

Did Strzemiński really lost his arm, leg, and eye in accidental grenade explosion? If yes, how come that two years later he was fit enough to join the army and come back to the battlefield?

In the Introduction authors admit that they originally