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Architect by profession. Krzywobłocki created photomontages, and for a number of years, he was listed (next to Witkacy, Hiller and Podsadecki) among the most important artists of the Polish inter-war avant-garde. Krzywobłocki studied at the Faculty of Architecture at Lviv Polytechnic (1922-1928). Until 1939, he worked in Lviv as an architect and conservator of monuments. He was the co-founder of Artes (1929). His first photos and montages were created in 1929, yet he did not exhibit them. During the war, Krzywobłocki was saving art monuments in Lviv. After the war, Krzywobłocki lived in Wrocław, where he worked as a monument conservator. Between 1948 and 1949, he created a series of twenty-one photomontages. Some of them were presented to the Wrocław Photographic Society (1948). The works from his later series (from 1955 and from the beginning of the 1970s) are dominated by a repertoire of his typical sculptural and architectural motifs, enriched by laces, crystals and floral elements, from which the author built crowded, closed compositions. In 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Krzywobłocki`s photomontages was held in the National Museum in Wrocław. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Wrocław and the Museum of Art in Łódź.