Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Janikowski - Artist Info

About Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Janikowski

  • Biography

    The work of Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Janikowski is a consistent path to color and formal asceticism. The artist initially created works in the current of realism to abandon it in favor of colorism.

    Art studies undertaken at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts Jan Matejko was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. It was the moment when the artist abandoned the artistic path and enlisted in the army. During its duration participated, among others in the September campaign.

    After the war, he settled in Scotland, where he decided to take up artistic studies again - this time at the College of Art in Edinburgh. After receiving the scholarship, he went to Paris and London. It was these expeditions that left his greatest mark on his w...

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