Dimensions: 60 x 75 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Kazimierz Mikulski | Krakow 1980 | "Puppet Theater: Forbidden Plays"'.
Origin:
Agra Art, 2002
private collection, Poland
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Kazimierz Mikulski, BWA Art Gallery Lodz, Contemporary Art Gallery Torun, Arsenal Poznan, BWA Gallery Plock,
Salon Sztuki Współczesnej Bydgoszcz, Awangarda Gallery Wroclaw, April 1987 - January 1988.
Literature
"Antiquarian Newspaper", 2 No. 5 (86), 2003 (cover illustration)
Ranking of Polish contemporary painters according to Marek Falat, "Przegląd", August 31, 2003, p. 38 (il.).
Kazimierz Mikulski. Painting, edited by I. Jabłońska, J. Windorbski, Warsaw 2000, p. 81 (ill.).
Kazimierz Mikulski. Painting, drawing, collage, ed. Teresa Sondka, exhibition catalog, Lodz 1988, p. nlb. pos. cat. 181 (il.)
Biography
From 1938 studied painting under P. Dadlez and K. Sichulski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. During the occupation, he continued his studies with F. Pautsch at the Kunstgewerbeschule. After the end of the war, he studied acting and directing in 1945-46 at the Drama Studio at the Old Theater in Cracow, at the same time he graduated from the Youth Film Workshop in 1945. He was a member of the Cracow Group and participated in Modern Art Exhibitions in Cracow and Warsaw. He was involved in painting, drawing, stage design and acting (he performed in Tadeusz Kantor's underground theater and, after the war, in his Cricot 2 theater) and wrote poetry. His paintings are classified as surrealistic, metaphorical and dreamlike. Favorite motifs include beautiful women, animals, flowers treated conventionally, filling the picture space.
