Dimensions: 50 x 47 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 't. Brzozowski | 84.' and mounting pointer
signed, dated and described on the reverse: '"KUGLARZ" | 50 x 47 | T. BRZOZOWSKI. | 1984'
Origins
collection of Barbara Komarnicka, United States
private collection, Poland
Desa Unicum, 2021
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Masters of Contemporary Art in Poland," Ithaca (New York), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornel University), 2.04-18.05.1986.
Literature
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, [ed.] Wawrzyniec Brzozowski, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1997, cat. no. 467, p. 242
Biography
Beginning in 1936 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, continuing from 1940-1942 at the Kunstgewerbeschule, established in place of the Academy. During the occupation, he was associated with Tadeusz Kantor's Underground Theater - he played in Balladina (1943) and the leading 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, in the course of independent trials and experiments, he became a virtuoso of painting technique. Color, texture, the play of glazes 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.
