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1921 Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland - 1998. Known for: Surrealism, Lyrical abstraction, Body art.
Jerzy Kujawski was a Polish artist born in 1921 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He spent the war period in Kraków and Warsaw, where he became friends with young artists such as Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz... Read full biography
Jerzy Kujawski was a Polish artist born in 1921 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He spent the war period in Kraków and Warsaw, where he became friends with young artists such as Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Brzozowski, and Jerzy Nowosielski. In 1945, he emigrated to Paris and quickly made contact with the local... Read full biography
Jerzy Kujawski was a Polish artist born in 1921 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He spent the war period in Kraków and Warsaw, where he became friends with young artists such as Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Brzozowski, and Jerzy Nowosielski. In 1945, he emigrated to Paris and quickly made contact with the local avant-garde centered around André Breton. He participated in the second international exhibition of surrealists at the Maeght Gallery, where he presented the painting "La Dichotomie de Soleil". From... Read full biography
Jerzy Kujawski was a Polish artist born in 1921 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He spent the war period in Kraków and Warsaw, where he became friends with young artists such as Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Brzozowski, and Jerzy Nowosielski. In 1945, he emigrated to Paris and quickly made contact with the local avant-garde centered around André Breton. He participated in the second international exhibition of surrealists at the Maeght Gallery, where he presented the painting "La Dichotomie de Soleil". From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, he began to create works in the informel painting trend and became one of the precursors of lyrical abstraction. In the mid-1960s, he returned to figuration and surreal imagination, though transformed in the context of... Read full biography
Jerzy Kujawski was a Polish artist born in 1921 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He spent the war period in Kraków and Warsaw, where he became friends with young artists such as Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Brzozowski, and Jerzy Nowosielski. In 1945, he emigrated to Paris and quickly made contact with the local avant-garde centered around André Breton. He participated in the second international exhibition of surrealists at the Maeght Gallery, where he presented the painting "La Dichotomie de Soleil". From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, he began to create works in the informel painting trend and became one of the precursors of lyrical abstraction. In the mid-1960s, he returned to figuration and surreal imagination, though transformed in the context of the contemporary world, full of mass culture clichés. He continued to experiment with techniques typical for works on paper:... Read full biography
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Jerzy Kujawski was a Polish artist born in 1921 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He spent the war period in Kraków and Warsaw, where he became friends with young artists such as Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Brzozowski, and Jerzy Nowosielski. In 1945, he emigrated to Paris and quickly made contact with the local avant-garde centered around André Breton.
He participated in the second international exhibition of surrealists at the Maeght Gallery, where he presented the painting "La Dichotomie de Soleil". From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, he began to create works in the informel painting trend and became one of the precursors of lyrical abstraction. In the mid-1960s, he returned to figuration and surreal imagination, though transformed in th...But wait, there's more...
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