Background
The Dunin Markievicz family held land in Ukraine, and had an estate at Zywotowka (Polish: Żywotówka) where Casimir grew up.
The Dunin Markievicz family held land in Ukraine, and had an estate at Zywotowka (Polish: Żywotówka) where Casimir grew up.
Markievicz attended the State Gymnasium in Kherson, and studied law at the University of Kyiv.
The family was listed in the Golden Book of Russian Nobility. In 1895 he transferred to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. They had two sons, Stanislas and Ryszard, but the marriage did not last.
Jadwiga returned to Ukraine where she and Ryszard died in 1899.
He met Constance Gore-Booth (later known as the Countess Markievicz) in Paris in 1899. From 1902 the couple lived in Dublin.
Markievicz was part of the literary circle that centred on West. B. Yeats and the Abbey Theatre. In 1913 Markievicz moved to present-day Ukraine, and never returned to live in Ireland.
Towards the end of his life Markievicz was active in Warsaw, as well as a correspondent for English magazines, such as the Londoner Daily News.
He also wrote the screenplay of a 1920 Polish film, Powrót, directed by Aleksander Hertz. The largest part of his art collection is held in Dublin, some remain in Poland (National Museum, Krakow and in private collections). His talent lent itself particularly to the large oil portraits of Polish presidents Piłsudski and Wojciechowski.
He died in Warsaw, Poland, in 1932.