Czesław SADOWSKI (1902-1959), Abstraction

monotype, paper, 50 x 35 cm,
Signed p.d.: C. Sadowski

Painter, educator, social activist, before WWII associated with Bialystok art community, after the war associated with Lodz. After graduating from a teachers' seminary, he worked as a teacher of drawing and handiwork at a Bialystok public school. At the urging of painter Jozef Rapacki, in 1925 he entered the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he studied for a year in the studio of Prof. Karol Tiche. In 1929-1931, he was on scholarship in Paris. After returning to Poland, he took a job as a junior high school teacher, actively participated in the artistic and social life of Bialystok, and co-founded the Bialystok Plastics Group Forma - Farba - Faktura. In 1938 he left for Lviv, where he worked as an illustrator and caricaturist in the editorial office of "Polish Daily" until 1939. After the war, he settled in Lodz. He was a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) and belonged to the art group Piąte Koło. The artist practiced landscape painting, painted portraits and still lifes, and devoted much attention to abstract compositions - paintings and monotypes. He was the brother of sculptor Tadeusz Sadowski.