Wladyslaw Jackiewicz was a very important figure of the Gdansk artistic community. In 1952 he graduated from the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Sopot in the studio of Artur Nacht-Samborski. After graduating, he co-founded Grupa Gdanska, and for many years he was associated with the district of the Association of Polish Artists on the Coast.

The beginnings of his work are related to activities in the trend of socialist realism and painting rooted in the color tradition. The breakthrough exhibition at the Arsenal in 1955 turned out to be important in his career. It was then that the artist began to turn to abstraction in his portraits and landscapes.

From the mid-1970s, Jackiewicz, as part of the Body series, creat...