A hyperrealistic portrait of a child on Wojska Polskiego street, based on an archival photograph, was reportedly painted for the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the camp for Polish children.
The mural at ul. Wojska Polskiego 112 on Bałuty in Łódź was painted by Piotr Saul and Damian Idzikowski. It presents a hyperrealistic portrait of a child drawing on archival photographs from the occupation period and commemorates the victims of a German Nazi camp for Polish children that operated in this part of the city.
Piotr Saul is an assistant at the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Damian Idzikowski was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź while the mural was being created. The mural was created in 2012, on the seventieth anniversary of the camp's establishment.
The German Nazi camp for Polish children and youth in Łódź operated from December 1942 to January 1945, in the area of present-day Bałuty. Approximately 5,000 Polish children and teenagers passed through it, held in difficult conditions during the occupation. The entrance to the camp was located at ul. Przemysłowa, in the immediate vicinity of where the mural now stands.
Since 2012, Saul and Idzikowski have painted successive portraits on Bałuty, also commemorating Jewish children from the Łódź ghetto, Polish camp prisoners and Romani children. The works are based on archival photographs from the occupation period and form a series dispersed throughout the district, in which each mural commemorates one of the groups of victims of war in the Bałuty area. Similar in character are, among others, the mural Jewish boy at ul. Łagiewnickiej and the mural Girl from Włodzimierz Pfeiffer's photograph at ul. Berlińskiego, created in the same project.
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