Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm
Biography
During the occupation, he was associated with Tadeusz Kantor's underground theater. During this period he was interested in poetry - a member of the Cracow poetic group "Inaczej". In 1945, he took up studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. His teachers included: Eugeniusz Eibisch and Andrzej Jurkiewicz. He made his debut in October 1949. In 1953-1956, he took part in the polychromy of the rebuilt tenements of the Old and New Town squares in Warsaw. In 1958, he traveled to the Middle East for the first time. In 1959, he had his first solo exhibition at the Krzywe Koło gallery, where he showed works created under the influence of his trip to Italy. In the same year he visited Baghdad, organizing an exhibition of Polish contemporary art there. In 1959-1960, he taught art printmaking and printing at Baghdad art colleges. After returning to Poland, he led the Painting and Drawing Studio at the Faculty of Textiles at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz. In 1982 he received a professorship at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1983 to 1984 he was the university's rector. The desert landscape of Iraq proved to be the artist's strongest inspiration. The fruits of his travels to the Middle East were sophisticated in color and texture canvases, watercolors and prints.
