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Feliks Topolski, a visual chronicler, portrait artist, illustrator, and author, was born in Warsaw, Poland, on August 14, 1907, the only child of actor..

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Feliks Topolski RA
Feliks Topolski RA (1907-1989) was one of Britain’s most famous 20th-century painters, draughtsmen and celebrities.

His final book, the idiosyncratic autobiography, Fourteen Letters, appeared in 1988.

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Feliks Topolski, a visual chronicler, portrait artist, illustrator, and author, was born in Warsaw, Poland, on August 14, 1907, the only child of actor.

Topolski was already well known in Warsaw, both as a painter and for his acutely observed pen and ink drawings, when he decided to widen his field with a.

Book details: Language: English.

He came from a Polish-Jewish family, and trained at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (1927-1932), before settling down in London in 1935; he gained British citizenship in 1947. Topolski was an official World War II Artist to British Government as well as the Polish Government-in-Exile; author of the largest mural at the Festival of Britain; Royal painter; illustrator of the classics of literature; portraitist of key public figures; and recorder of Britain’s cultural and social life.

Topolski was a modern ‘History Painter’, documenting current affairs by means of eye-witness reportage.

His own broadsheet Topolski’s Chronicles became the artist’s vehicle for publishing drawings from his travels around the globe, often accompanied by writings. His focus was an