'' (1859, artist uncredited, possibly his son, Adolf) He was born in
Puławy. He came from a family of craftsmen and studied painting with Józef Richter (1780–1837). In 1816, he moved to Warsaw, where he took employment as a clerk for the ('Justice Committee'). Two years later, he was appointed as curator of the print collection at the
University of Warsaw and, shortly thereafter, became Secretary of the University Library. He would hold both of these positions until the University was closed by the Russian authorities in 1832. In 1819, he travelled to Vienna as an advisor for the ('Committee of Religious Affairs and Public Enlightenment'). While there, he studied graphic techniques at the Imperial print collection with
Adam von Bartsch. After returning, he worked to enlarge and organize the University's collection and wrote several articles on art and history for the . From 1820 to 1830, he worked with the ('Society of the Friends of Science') as artistic director for their ('Tombs of the Kingdom of Poland in
Kraków'). Together with , he worked to promote a new lithographic technology; the
zincograph. In 1825, he took a trip to Berlin and Dresden to study new methods of museum curating. Following the failure of the
November Uprising and the closing of the University, he oversaw the liquidation of the University's art and book collections; organizing the materials and preparing them for shipment to Saint Petersburg. During the next decade, he wrote several works on art and art education, including ('Models and Scientific Drawing'), published in 1840 and reprinted several times. He also taught at an academy for young ladies and a private art school operated by
Aleksander Kokular. Later, he took an active role in helping to establish the ('School of Fine Arts in Warsaw'). When it opened in 1844, he was given the chair of drawing and landscape painting, which he held until his retirement in 1848. He is credited with introducing the practice of painting . His oil paintings were largely composed of landscapes and
genre scenes, with a few works depicting events of the November Uprising. Among his best-known students were
Wojciech Gerson,
Franciszek Kostrzewski,
Henryk Pillati,
Józef Simmler and
Józef Szermentowski. His son,
Adolf, was a well-known
miniaturist. Piwarski died in 1859, in Warsaw. == Selected works ==