Aleksander Kobzdej

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Gravestone of Aleksander Kobzdej in Warsaw

Aleksander Kobzdej (born September 12, 1920 in Olesko , Poland , † September 25, 1972 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter , set designer and architect .

life and work

Aleksander Kobzdej studied architecture in Lviv from 1939 to 1941 . He finished his architecture studies in Gdansk at the Polytechnic in 1945/46 and then went to the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts to study painting with Władysław Lam (1893-1984).

Kobzdej began painting in the style of post- impressionism . Then he gradually painted more and more abstractly . At the beginning of the 1940s he found favor with European realism, which finally led him to socialist realism in the late 1940s .

From 1950 he was an active and regular participant in the official state art awards in Poland, including the annual National Exhibition of Fine Arts , organized in Warsaw by the Ministry of Culture and Art. Kobdzej slowly developed away from socialist realism again, his iconography went in the direction of exotic representations, which were mainly shaped by his trips to Vietnam and the People's Republic of China . His art found international recognition. In 1964 his works were shown in the painting department at documenta III in Kassel .

Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Kobzdej, Aleksander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kobzdej, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter, set designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Olesko , Second Polish Republic
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1972
Place of death Warsaw