Lech Kunka (1920 Pabianice - 1978 Łódź), Untitled, 1965

mixed technique, panel, 118 x 93 cm, signed p.d.: 'L. Kunka 65'



Connected with Lodz since 1945 - initially as a student, a pupil of Władysław Strzemiński, then as a researcher at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz. He studied in Paris at the Académie Moderne, led by Fernand Léger. Since 1963, he was pro-rector and dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Co-founder of the St-53 Group in Katowice. He was a participant in many important appearances of the post-war avant-garde, including participation in the exhibition at the Warsaw Arsenal in 1955, the Eight Exhibition, the Second and Third Exhibition of Modern Art. He had a total of nearly 350
eskpositions all over the world. He was the author of theatrical and film set designs ("Silent Star") and functional forms (curtain of the Grand Theater in Lodz, University Library), as well as spatial forms (among others in Elblag and Lublin). Lech Kunka created under the influence of the work of W. Strzeminski, painted geometric abstractions. In the late 1950s, he entered the stage of structural painting (compositions on arrangements of circles), using a variety of materials and painting techniques.