Zbigniew Pronaszko - Artist Info

About Zbigniew Pronaszko

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    Zbigniew Pronaszko (1885 - 1958) Zbigniew Pronaszko (Derebczyn k. Jampola (Zychlin na Podolu?) 1885 - Kraków 1958) - painter, graphic designer, sculptor and set designer.

    He began his artistic studies in Kiev, from where he soon moved to Krakow, in 1906-1911 to study in the local Academy of Fine Arts with Teodor Axentowicz and Jacek Malczewski.

    During his studies he traveled to Vienna, Munich, Florence and Paris. He spent the years of the First World War in Zakopane. In 1917 he was a co-founder of the group of Polish Expressionists (in 1919 renamed the Formists). After the war, in the years 1923-1925 he lectured at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius.

    Then he lived in Krakow, teachin...

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