He associated with a group of "formist" artists in the early 1920s and wrote most of his plays during this period. He soon entered into a major creative phase, setting out his principles in New Forms in Painting and Introduction to the Theory of Pure Form in the Theatre. He had begun to support himself through portrait painting and continued to do so on his return to Zakopane in Poland. His later works would show his fear of social revolution and foreign invasion, often couched in absurdist language.
He claimed that he worked out his philosophical principles during an artillery barrage, and that when the Revolution broke out he was elected political commissar of his regiment. Witkiewicz lived through the Russian Revolution in St Petersburg. His ailing father, a Polish nationalist, was deeply grieved by the youngster’s decision and died in 1915 without seeing his son again. On his return, Witkiewicz, a citizen of the Russian Empire, went to St Petersburg and was commissioned an officer in the Imperial army. Following a crisis in Witkiewicz’s personal life due to the suicide of his fiancée Jadwiga Janczewska, he was invited by Malinowski to act as draftsman and photographer on a 1914 expedition to Oceania, a venture that was interrupted by the onset of World War I. Witkiewicz was close friends with Karol Szymanowski and, from childhood, with Bronisław Malinowski and Zofia Romer. In accordance with his father’s antipathy to the "servitude of the school," the boy was home-schooled and encouraged to develop his talents across a range of creative fields. Witkiewicz was reared at the family home in Zakopane. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicza Witkiewiczowa.
Lifeīorn in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was the son of painter, architect and art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ( 24 February 188518 September 1939), commonly known as "Witkacy", was a Polish poet, playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and philosopher.
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