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Aleksander Wat
12018-03-27T17:51:05-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e197494plain2018-07-17T01:20:23-07:00Warsaw, PolandMay 1, 1900July 29, 1967126Antony, FranceIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Aleksander Wat (1900–1967) was born in Warsaw, Poland, and was descended from an illustrious Jewish family. He studied philosophy, psychology, and logic at Warsaw University and was a key figure in Eastern European interwar avant-garde movements.
12018-07-17T01:19:39-07:00Aleksander Wat1media/Aleksander_Wat.jpgplain2018-07-17T01:19:41-07:00Photographed from Stanisław Jaworski: Awangarda. Warszawa 1992, p. 89.