A Life Forged in Conflict and Color Born into the quiet surroundings of Nietulisko Duże, near Kunów, Antoni Adam Piotrowski was the son of a man who worked with iron sheets. His early years in the Russian sector of partitioned Poland were marked by the shadows of unrest, specifically the January Uprising which he witnessed as a young boy. This early exposure to upheaval would later define his brushwork. After the loss of his father, th…