Andrzej Wróblewski (1927 Vilnius - 1957 Tatra Mountains), "Sunken City II," 1948

Exhibited
Exhibition of Modern Art, Palace of Art, Cracow, 19.12.1948-19.01.1949
Exhibition of works by Andrzej Wróblewski on the 10th anniversary of his death, National Museum, Poznań, 10.04-14.05.1967
Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957, National Museum, Warsaw, 5.02-3.03.1968
"Artists from Krakow. Painting, Sculpture, Graphics", Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 12.08-19.09.1993
Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957: A Retrospective, National Museum, Cracow, 26.01.1996-31.03.1996
"The Moderns 1948-1954 (1st Exhibition of Modern Art. 50 Years Later. The Moderns and Socialist Realism"), Gallery of
Zachęta Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 10.04-10.05.2000
Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957, National Museum, Warsaw, 8.03-6.05.2007

Literature
Andrzej Wróblewski. Posthumous Exhibition, exhibition catalog, Palace of Art, ed. Krystyna Wróblewska, Cracow 1958,
Item cat. 17, p. 53 (list of works not exhibited)
Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957. exhibition catalog on the 10th anniversary of his death, National Museum, Poznan 1967,
Item cat. 13, p. 33
In the circle of the forties. Part 1, edited by Józef Chrobak, Cracow 1990, pp. 50, 59 (reproduction of the list of works from the catalog of the
Exhibition of Modern Art, as "Sunken Cities")
Artists from Krakow, exhibition catalog, Zacheta, ed. Jan Motyka, Warsaw 1993, p. 56
Monika Kuc, Artists from Krakow, "Gazeta Wyborcza (Gazeta Stołeczna)", no. 194, 1993, p. 40 (as "Sunken cities")
Seweryn A. Wisłocki, Son and Mother, "Supplement," no. 31, 1994, p. 17.
Marek Soltysik, Blue Andrzej Wróblewski, "Przekrój," no. 11, 1996, pp. 20-21 (ill. on photograph from exhibition
"Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957: A Retrospective" at the National Museum in Cracow).
Zofia Golubiew, Wróblewski shown anew, "Art & Business", no. 4, 1996, p. 41 (il. on photograph from exhibition
"Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957.
A Retrospective" at the National Museum in Cracow)
I Exhibition of Modern Art fifty years later, exhibition catalog, Starmach Gallery, ed. Marek Świca,
Józef Chrobak, Kraków 1998, pp. 124, 305 (ill.).
Andrzej Wróblewski, ed. Zofia Golubiew, Warsaw 1998, cat. no. 35, p. 52 (il. catalog of oil paintings),
172 (mentioned)
The Moderns 1948-1954, exhibition catalog, Zachęta Gallery of Contemporary Art, ed. Jolanta Chrzanowska-Pieńkos,
Warsaw 2000 (cover - on a photograph from the Modern Art Exhibition)
Repertory, "Gazeta Wyborcza (Gazeta Stołeczna)", no. 99, 2000, p. 8 (photo from the exhibition "Modern 1948-1954")
Andrzej Wróblewski 1927-1957, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, ed. Joanna Kordjak-Piotrowska,
Warsaw 2007, cat. no. 3, pp. 56, 179 (ill.), 192 (index)
Avoiding intermediate states. Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957), ed. Magdalena Ziolkowska, Wojciech Grzybala,
Warsaw 2014, cat. no. 91, pp. 96-97 (il.), 125-126 (mentioned)
Perspective on the Age of Adolescence. Szapocznikow, Wróblewski, Wajda, exhibition catalog, Silesian Museum,
ed. by Anda Rottenberg, Katowice 2018, p. 28 (ill.)

Biography
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and art history at Jagiellonian University from 1945-52. From 1946 he participated in exhibitions, and from 1948 he also engaged in journalism, mainly in the field of art. From 1950-54 he served as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Prof. Radnicki and Prof. Rudzka-Cybisowa, among others. He died on March 23, 1957 on a solitary excursion in the Tatra Mountains. In his works, using an original and fascinating language of painting, he expressed in a highly evocative way the tragic experiences of a generation growing up during the war and entering maturity during Stalinist times. Considered a forerunner of new figuration, contemporary realism, also new expression, he is among the greatest Polish painters of the 20th century.