Painter (Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow), horseman, soldier, Knight of the Cross of the Home Army. A student of Professor Michał Bylina.

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Ludwik Maciąg was born in 1920 in Kraków.

Around 1922, the Maciąg family moved from Kraków to Biała Podlaska, where, years later, Ludwik graduated from junior high school. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

After graduating from high school, he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and, as he wrote, "the war extended my self-taught time." The German occupation provoked an immediate conspiracy. After graduating from the Home Army cadet school, in the spring of 1944, Ludwik Maciąg was assigned to the mounted reconnaissance of the partisan unit "Zenona" of the 34th Infantry Regiment of the Home Army. After the war, as a Home Army soldier, he had to hide from the NKVD. At that time, he worked as a forester and mastaler at the stud in Janów Podlaski.

Then he began his artistic studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and after a semester continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1951 with a specialization in graphic arts. In the years 1950-1990 at his alma mater, at the Faculty of Painting, he was an assistant to prof. Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, and immediately after the diploma, an assistant professor in the studio of prof. Michał Bylina.

In the years 1969-1972 he was the dean of the Faculty of Painting, and from 1987 he was a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. As a long-term teacher at his alma mater, he simultaneously practiced painting, applied graphics, designed textiles, postage stamps, and posters.

His works have been presented at numerous exhibitions in Poland and Polish art abroad. His works in the field of painting include: Polish landscape, horses, war and partisan themes, which are the image of the artist's personal experiences.

In the field of applied graphics, prof. Ludwik Maciąg designed occasional posters, postage stamps, e.g. the series: "Horses" and "Jazda polska"; he was the author of many well-known book illustrations and tapestries, as well as polychromes in the Roman Catholic church of St. of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bodzanów near Płock.

He had a number of individual exhibitions in the country and abroad, among others. in England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, the USA and Canada. He participated in collective exhibitions of Polish art abroad in many European countries, in China, India and Iran.

Works by prof. Ludwik Maciąg can be found in many museums, including the National Museum and the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of Southern Podlasie in Biała Podlaska, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, Folkestone Gallery and Cassel Galerie in England, and in the collections of private collectors in Poland and USA.

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