Zdzislaw Beksinski, Melancolia

oil on panel, 125.5x64.5 cm

Born in 1929 in Sanok, photographer, graphic artist, illustrator and painter. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. In the late 1950s, he worked as a stylist-artist in the Department of the Chief Constructor of the "Autosan" Factory. He began his artistic activity as a photographer. Success brought him mainly painterly and sculptural works. As early as the 1960s, he completely devoted himself to painting on the borderline of dark fantasy and surrealism, mixed with his own visions. He also created sculptures in plaster and metal. From the mid-1970s, Beksinski worked almost exclusively in oil painting. In the 1990s, he began to introduce computer graphics applied to works based on a collection of his own photographs. For several years he was associated with Piotr Dmochowski, who opened an art gallery in France (1989-96) dedicated to the artist's works. The artist died tragically in 2005. The artist's works are in numerous museums and galleries in Poland, including Sanok, Warsaw, Krakow, Czestochowa and Wroclaw, as well as in many private collections.