Sławomir Karpowicz was born in Szczebrzeszyn in 1952 and died in Krakow in 2001. He studied from 1973 to 1978 at the Faculty of Painting of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under Jan Szancenbach and taught there from 1979, first as head of a drawing studio, later of a painting class; from 1993 to 1996 he was vice-dean of the Faculty of Painting, and in 1996 he was appointed associate professor. His work includes still lifes, often featuring fish and trumpets, landscapes, portraits, and figure studies, mostly in dark, nocturnal tonalities with harsh light accents.
