Andrzej Wróblewski (1927 Vilnius - 1957 Tatra), [Mountains No. 295], [From the sketchbook Tatra II], ca1953-1955

ink/paper
Dimensions: 21.5 x 29.8 cm
Inscribed on the reverse: '295' and 'A.Wróblewski' (in the hand of Krystyna Wróblewska, the artist's mother) and marked '186' and 'IN169'

Provenance
heirs of the artist, after 1994
deposit of the National Museum in Cracow, 2002-2012
private collection, Cracow
private collection, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, December 2019
private collection, Warsaw

Exhibited
Gouaches, watercolors, drawings by Andrzej Wroblewski. Inedita
Gallery In Spe, Theater Museum of the Grand Theater of the National Opera, Warsaw, February 4-27, 2002.
Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Exhibition Office, Gorzow Wielkopolski, March 2-31, 2002.
Art Exhibition Office, Olsztyn, April 11-May 6, 2002
Art Gallery EL Center, Elblag, May 10-June 2, 2002.
Arsenal City Gallery, Poznan, June 6-23, 2002

Literature
Avoiding intermediate states. Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957), edited and scholarly concept by Magdalena Ziolkowska and Wojciech Grzybala, Warsaw 2014, published by the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Hatje Cantz Verlag; item 142, p. 171 (ill.)
Gouache, watercolor, drawings by Andrzej Wróblewski. Inedita, In Spe Gallery, Warsaw 2002, item 198.
Andrzej Wróblewski. Posthumous Exhibition, catalog of a
monographic exhibition, Palace of Art, Cracow 1958, list of works not exhibited

Biography
From 1945-52 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and art history at the Jagiellonian University. From 1946 he participated in exhibitions, and from 1948 he was also involved in journalism, mainly in the field of art. From 1950-54 he served as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Prof. Radnicki and Prof. Rudzka-Cybisowa, among others. He died on March 23, 1957 on a solitary excursion in the Tatra Mountains. In his works, using an original and fascinating painterly language, he expressed in a highly evocative way the tragic experiences of a generation growing up during the war and entering maturity during Stalinist times. Considered a forerunner of new figuration, contemporary realism, also new expression, he is among the greatest Polish painters of the 20th century.