Paweł Bielec
Polish artist (1902-2002)
Paweł Bielec (20 March 1902 in Dynów – 16 November 2002 in Kraków) was a Polish photographer and painter.
He opened his first studio in Lviv in 1928, on Grodzka Street, and then at University street. In 1938 he moved to Krakow where he lived for many years and created the noted photographic company Photo Bielec.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Paweł Bielec” as polish artist (1902-2002). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as polish artist (1902-2002). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11813942. VIAF identifies the subject as 300914461. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902, 2002, 1928 and 1938.
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This entry incorporates text from “Paweł Bielec” 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.