Mariusz Lewandowski Painted Apocalyptic Monoliths And Lone Witnesses To Cosmic Horror, Turning Personal Nightmares Into Surreal Oil Masterpieces

Mariusz Lewandowski was a Polish surrealist painter (1960–2022) from Działdowo who lived and worked in Górowo Iławeckie, Warmia and Masuria, creating oil‑on‑canvas works dominated by mystical, apocalyptic and otherworldly motifs.

Without formal art training, he started by painting shop signs and funeral ribbons while working at a metal factory, then sold paintings at local markets near Lidzbark Warmiński and Olsztyn before gaining wider recognition for his distinctive style of cosmic horror, barren landscapes and lone figures confronting towering monoliths, cataclysms and horrific entities. His breakthrough came with American doom metal band Bell Witch commissioning the cover for their 2017 album Mirror Reaper, leading to further metal covers and a posthumous legacy managed by his family, with originals and fine‑art prints.

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