Born in Poland, Caziel attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1931-36, where the influence of French Post-Impressionist painting was omnipresent. Revered masters amongst the students and significant influences on Caziel's early development as a painter included Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. Caziel spent the major years of his artistic development in France, following his move to Paris in 1937. His painting developed through a synthesis of many diverse elements into an individual form of 'cubist' abstraction during the 1940's, under the influence of his close friend Picasso. In 1951 Caziel and joined the 'Groupe Espace', whose program of uniting Constructivist art with architecture, promoted the creation of a new environment appropriate to the new society of the modern age. At that time, he declined Kahnweiler's offer to include him in his stable of figurative artists as he had found his way into Asbstraction.