Eugeniusz Kazimirowski

Eugeniusz Marcin Kazimirowski (11 November 1873 – 23 September 1939 in Białystok) was a Polish painter, and member of the realism movement.

He is best known for the first depiction of the Divine Mercy image in 1934, based on a request from Faustyna Kowalska and her confessor Michael Sopoćko.

[1] Kazimirowski studied painting at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts 1892–1897.

Michael Sopoćko at the Gate of Dawn church in Vilnius, on 28 April 1935 the second Easter Sunday, long before the Vatican approved the term Divine Mercy Sunday in 2000.

[3] Most of Kazimirowski's works were lost in World War II.