Dimensions: 120 x 120 cm
signed and dated p.g.: 'TK | 68'
described on the stretcher: 'MN P.R. | [illegible] ARSENA³'.
Origin:
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Tadeusz Kalinowski 1909-1997. on the centenary of his birth, National Museum in Poznań, Poznań, 4-29.12.2009
Literature
Tadeusz Kalinowski 1909-1997. on the centenary of his birth, exhibition catalog, Poznań 2009
Biography
Studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the direction of M. Kotarbinski. He also attended the scenography studio of W. Drabik and W. Daszewski, and took lessons in interior design with W. Jastrzębowski. He received his diploma in 1937. From 1949 he collaborated with the avant-garde group 4F+R (Form, Paint, Texture, Fantastics + Realism), whose founders included A. Lenica. Since the early 1960s, Kalinowski's art has been part of the geometric abstraction trend. The coryphaeuses of the Polish avant-garde - W. Strzeminski, K. Sosnowski and A. Marczynski - had a huge influence on the formation of his concept of art with means of expression radically limited to geometric structures.
