Dimensions: 93 x 100 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 't. Brzozowski . | 1963.'
signed, dated and described on the stretcher: 'T. BRZOZOWSKI | 93x100 | 'MYTO' | 1963'.
on the reverse of the montage note
Origins
Agra-Art, 2015
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Tadeusz Brzozowski - Painting. Drawing, MPiK club, Torun, November 1963.
Paintings and drawings by Tadeusz Brzozowski, National Museum in Poznan, December 1963.
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, April-June 1997
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, Tytus Chałubiński Tatra Museum in Zakopane, June-August 1007
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, National Museum in Wroclaw, October-December 1997
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, National Museum in Cracow, February-April 1998
Literature
Jerzy Stajuda, Conservatist, "POLSKA" (and foreign language editions), 1964, no. 5 (ill.).
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Tytus Chałubiński Tatra Museum in Zakopane, National Museum, Wrocław, National Museum in Cracow, ed. Anna Żakiewicz, Warsaw 1997, cat. no. 144, pp. 229, 308 (index)
Biography
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1936, continuing his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, established in place of the Academy, from 1940 to 1942. During the occupation, he was associated with Tadeusz Kantor's Underground Theater - he played in Balladina (1943) and the lead role in The Return of Odysseus (1944). During this period he was also involved in art conservation, which proved fruitful for his own painting technique in the future. In 1945 he finally graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Until 1948, he exhibited with the Young Visual Artists Group, participating in the most important exhibitions of the young art movement, until the authorities imposed Socialist Realism as the prevailing style of painting. In 1954, he moved to Zakopane, where he began teaching at the Kenar School. During this period, he became a virtuoso of painting technique in the course of independent trials and experiences. Color, texture, the play of glazing and values, all the "alchemy" he used in his paintings made up the unique phenomenon of abstract painting, which was capable of "telling" with its very form. In 1955, he returned to participating in exhibitions, participating in numerous shows in Poland and abroad, also holding many solo exhibitions.
