Wladyslaw Popielarczyk is a listed painter, poet and composer who was born in 1925 in Szteklinie, Poland, and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

He had his own gallery in Warsaw, and was a very well-known and popular local figure. His works are in the National Museum of Warsaw, The Modern Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Museum of Modern Art in Miami, Florida.

His works are found in many private and public collections. He died in 1987.