LITERATURE:
Hermansdorfer Collection [exhibition catalog], published by All That Art! Foundation, Wroclaw 2017, pp. 39, 150
ORIGIN:
- Warsaw, private collection
- Wrocław, private collection
- deposit of the National Museum in Wroclaw
Painter, printmaker, art theorist. Considered one of the most prominent avant-garde artists of the interwar period. Associated with the trend of constructivism. In 1913-19 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, under the direction of Stanislaw Lentz. He belonged to many art groups, such as: Polish Expressionists, Blok, Praesens, a. r., Cercle et Carré, Abstarction-Création. He traveled frequently to Paris. He was friends with Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg and Michel Seuphor. He is considered one of the first Polish artists of geometric abstractions. In 1930, he was a co-organizer of a collection of works by artists of the international avant-garde intended for the Lodz museum (now in the Museum of Art in Lodz). After World War II, he lived and worked in Warsaw. After 1956, widely regarded as the patron saint of the Polish avant-garde, he already practiced exclusively abstraction of Constructivist origin. He created series of works that were studies of planes, lines, colors in various arrangements in relation to each other. In addition to painting and derivative forms, such as collages, reliefs, multiples, he created spatial forms and graphics. His works have appeared in many exhibitions, including: Warsaw, Vilnius, Lodz.
