Dimensions: 33.5 x 41.5 cm
signed p.d.: 'adam marczyński
on the reverse: oil composition depicting a landscape with a railway track, paper deposit sticker of the National Museum in Poznań on the artist's loom, twice-repeated stamp of the maker of painting materials and a framing note
Provenance
private collection, Poland (long-term deposit at National Museum in Poznan)
Exhibited
New Beginnings. Modernism in the Second Republic of Poland, National Museum in Krakow, July 29, 2022 - February 12, 2023
Hommage à Józef Chrobak - around the memory of the Cracow Group, 9/11 Art Space Foundation, Piekary Gallery, Poznań, November 20 - December 23, 2020
Here comes the youth! I Grupa Krakowska, National Museum in Krakow, September 27, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Krakow Group 1932-1937, National Museum in Wroclaw, December 2, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Journey into the Twentieth Century, National Museum in Warsaw, January 17-March 30, 2008
Exhibition of the Cracow Group, Krzemieniec, May-June 1934
Literature
A New Beginning. Modernism in the Second Republic of Poland, exhibition catalog, ed. Piotr Juszkiewicz, Andrzej Szczerski, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 2022, pp. 168-169 (il.)
Hommage à Józef Chrobak - around the memory of the Cracow Group, exhibition catalog, ed. Magdalena Piłakowska, 9/11 Art Space Foundation, Piekary Gallery, Poznań 2020, cat. no. 22, il. 8
Here comes the youth! I Grupa Krakowska, exhibition folder, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 2019, p. nlb. (il.)
Grupa Krakowska 1932-1937, exhibition catalog, edited by Barbara Ilkosz, National Museum in Wrocław, Wrocław 2018, p. 240 (ill.), p. 322 (list of works exhibited in the exhibition)
Expedition to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalog, ed. Katarzyna Nowakowska-Sito, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 2008, cat. no. 78, ill. 154
Leopold Lewicki and the 1st Cracow Group, Cracow 1991, p. 51 (mentioned)
Adam Marczyński 1908-1985. monographic exhibition, exhibition catalog, ed. and ed. by Jozef Chrobak, BWA Exhibition Pavilion in Krakow, Henryk Sienkiewicz Center for the Propagation of Culture and Art PARK in Lodz, Krakow 1985, p. nlb. (mentioned in the calendar)
Artistic Avant-Garde from the Circle of the KPP. Exhibition of the Cracow Group, exhibition catalog, ed. by Maria Anna Potocka, Józef Chrobak, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, Cracow 1979, p. 63 (mentioned in the calendar)
Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1929-36. In the 1930s he became associated with the Cracow Group, and participated in its reactivation in 1957. His participation in the work of the Association was associated with a sometimes sharp conflict with T. Kantor and his closest "entourage". It seems that Adam Marczynski - next to M. Jarema - was the most outstanding painter of the Group. From 1945 until his retirement he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he led the painting studio. Since 1950 he was its professor. In addition to painting, he practiced drawing, printmaking (monotypes) and stage design. He is the author of highly regarded church polychromies (Nowy Wiśnicz, Tarnów Cathedral, Ratułów, Brzesko, Sokołów Małopolski). He was the author of book illustrations - "Blue pages" by A. Rudnicki, "Kidnapping in Tiutiurlistan" by W. Żukrowski, "Memoirs" by Pask, "Restless hours" by I. Jurgielewiczowa and others. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the Polish avant-garde. In Marczyński's early works, the influences of Cubism and Colorism are evident. After the war, he created lyrical compositions inspired by the art of Paul Klee and Joan Miro. The next stage of his work was in the 1960s - at that time the artist joined the current of matter painting, creating collages - from broken boards, partially burnt slats, sheets of veneer, pieces of cardboard and rusty sheet metal . In the 1970s he made compositions from small coffers with tilting, movable walls.
