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Mieczysław Wasilewski

Polish artist (born 1942)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6843629 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mieczysław Wasilewski (born 1942) is a Polish graphic designer.

He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He taught graphic design at the University of Damascus 1981 - 1982. He has a professorship at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the Department of Graphic Arts.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mieczysław Wasilewski” is polish artist (born 1942). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mieczysław, Wasilewski and Polish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1981, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-01. For this dossier, Mieczysław, Wasilewski and Polish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “polish artist (born 1942)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6843629. VIAF identifies the subject as 84771882. The Library of Congress control number is no2018019398. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1981 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mieczysław Wasilewski” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.