Zbigniew Pronaszko (1885 Derebczyn - 1958 Kraków), "Nude," 1922

Origins
from the collection of the family of Andrzej Pronaszko
Rempex auction house, April 2004
private collection, Poland

Literature
Irena Jakimowicz, Formists, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1989, p. 63, cat. no. 781
Helena Blum, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Warsaw 1983, p. 21, ill. 17
Joanna Pollakówna, The Formists, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk 1972, p. 165.
Bolesław Bielawski, Rzeźba formistyczna, [in:] Ze studiów nad genezą plastyki nowoczesnej w Polsce, Wrocław 1966, il. 11
Helena Blumówna, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Warsaw 1958, repr. no. 9

Biography
Brother of Andrzej, also a painter. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kiev and in 1906-11 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Teodor Axentowicz and Jacek Malczewski. In 1910 he traveled to Italy and France. He was a member of art groups: Formists and Zwornik. He lived in Zakopane, in Vilnius, where he was a professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Stefan Batory University, and in Cracow, where he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. His work in both painting and sculpture (including the Mickiewicz monument for Vilnius) was shaped by the influence of avant-garde European art, especially Cubism, and the art of the Podhale region. In the 1930s, his interest in color became dominant in his painting - in an effort to synthesize it, he extracted a great wealth of hues from just a few primary colors. He painted primarily landscapes, still lifes and portraits.