Wacław Wąsowicz

{{Short description|Polish painter and printmaker}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Wacław Wąsowicz

| image = Wąsowicz Blue self-portrait.jpg

| caption = Self-portrait of Wacław Wąsowicz (1937)

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1891|08|25}}

| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1942|10|06|1891|08|25}}

| death_place = Warsaw, Poland

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| nationality = Polish

| field = Painting

| training = School of Fine Arts in Warsaw

| movement = Fauvism

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| spouse = Janina Raabe-Wąsowiczowa

}}

Wacław Wąsowicz (25 August 1891 – 6 October 1942) was a Polish painter and printmaker.{{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/waclaw-wasowicz|website=Culture|accessdate=22 October 2015}}

Wacław Wasowicz studied art with Wojciech Gerson (1909–1910), afterwards he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1911–1914), where he was taught by Ignacy Pieńkowski.{{cite web|title=Wacław Wąsowicz|url=http://es.artprice.com/artista/107239/waclaw-wasowicz/lote/past/1/Pintura/1680128/portrait-de-janina-raabe|website=Art Price|accessdate=22 October 2015}} He had also studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was a student of Jacek Malczewski (1914). He had made his artwork using trompe-l'œil, printmaking, watercolour, he painted on fabric, and on ceramic.{{cite web|title=List Of Paintings|url=http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/arts_culture/painting/painters/Wasowicz/link.shtml|website=Information Poland Buffalo|accessdate=22 October 2015}}

His wife Janina Raabe-Wąsowiczowa was a social worker, and a member of the Konrad Żegota Committee.{{cite web|title=Wacław Wąsowicz (Warszawa 1891 – Wilanów k. Warszawy 1942)|url=http://artyzm.com/artysta.php?id=661|website=Artyzm|accessdate=22 October 2015}}{{cite web|title=Teresa Preker, Konspiracyjna Rada Pomocy Żydom w Warszawie 1942–1945 [Underground Relief Council for Jews in Warsaw 1942–1945]|url=http://polish-jewish-heritage.org/eng/teresa_preker_chapters1-2.htm|website=Polish Jewish Heritage|accessdate=22 October 2015}}

File:Wacław Wąsowicz - Portret damy z tulipanem.jpg|Portrait of Lady with Tulips
(1921)

File:Wacław Wąsowicz - Portret żony 1928.jpg|Portrait of Wife
(1928)