Marek Wiatr

Marek Wiatr is an artist, a singer, a painter, a graphic artist and an art expert – in a word – a man of the Renaissance. He comes from one of the best-known doctor’s families in Podkarpacie . His family home was visited by celebrittes like Leon Wyczólkowski, Emil Zegadłowicz, Wanda Siemaszkowa, ambassador Alfred Wysocki and his parents were friends of Maria Konopnicka’s daughter – Zofia Mickiewiczowa and Wojciech Kossak’s daughter – Magdalena Samozwaniec. During the war Stanisław Studencki, a famous painter of battles, lived in his house. Today his home is visited by the most important representatives of cultural life. The atmosphere in which he grew up taught him to respect people and revere the arts and it was the reason for the interests he developed later in his life. For some time he was unsure whether to choose singing or painting, but finally he succeeded in combining both. Marek Wiatr studied singing in Professor H.Szubert-Slysz’s class at the Academy of Music in Cracow. Later he did master’s courses in Weimar under the supervision of Professor P. Lissitzian. At the same time he began painting as the pupil of St. Kochanek, then he studied in A. Siwecki’s class in Cracow. Marek Wiatr has given many concerts in Poland and abroad. He also organizes charity concerts and donates paintings for charities. Many of his works adorn the homes of friends and artists all over the world. So far around thirty exhibitions of single paintings or of his entire life’s work have shown his artistic achievement in Poland and abroad.