Stanisław Frenkiel RWA (14 September 1918 in Kraków – 21 June 2001 in London) was a Polish expressionist painter, graphic artist, art historian, teacher, academic and writer.
In 1937 he completed his schooling at Kraków's Henryk Sienkiewicz Gimnazjum and entered the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in the city.
There Stanisław Frenkiel was arrested by the NKVD for refusing to accept Soviet citizenship and was deported to a camp in Suhobesodnoye near Nizhny Novgorod.
At the end of that year an amnesty enabled him to leave the labour camp and he made his way to Tomsk, having heard that his fiancé Anna, had been deported to Yakuts on the Sea of Okhotsk.
He managed to join general Anders' Polish forces being mobilised at that time in Soviet Russia and crossed the Caspian Sea from Turkmenbasi into Iran.
Here, he received the news from his aunt, who gad survived the war, that his mother Bronislawa and his stepfather Benjamin (Juma) had been shot dead in Zakliczyn, a small town in Southern Poland.
In 1947 the British authorities announced that Poles who had served in the Allied Forces could choose either to return to Poland or to go to the United Kingdom.
His prolific artistic output, including printmaking, continued alongside his academic work and free-lance writing and art criticism in the Polish language émigré press.