Antoni Karwowski

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Antoni Karwowski in his studio

Antoni Karwowski (born April 14, 1948 in Grajewo ) is a Polish painter of lyrical abstraction and performance artists.

Life

Karwowski grew up in a small town in eastern Poland surrounded by the Biebrza National Park . His father worked as a social worker and in cultural promotion, his mother as a hairdresser. He has a younger brother. His father gave him his first painting lessons. In addition, his Russian grandfather, who wrote poetry and sang old Russian songs, influenced his artistic career.

After graduating from high school, Antoni Karwowski experimented with various art forms in addition to painting. He lived in different places and attended several universities, in the meantime also worked as a miner until he was trained at the faculty of fine arts at the University of Thorn .

His pictures are in various private collections in Europe. He also received orders from companies, for example from a radiological doctor's practice in Dortmund, for which he created a 53-meter-long mural in 2005.

  • Girl with Green Dogs

  • Act in blues

  • Act 2

  • Three graces in blue

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: Ostholstein Museum , Eutin.
  • 2006–2007: selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem , shown in the International Center Al Kahf Art Gallery , Bethlehem, in the Officyna Art Space , Stettin, in the Museo Arte Contemporaneo , Santa Fe (Argentina), in the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum , Naples and in the Museo Arte Contemporaneo Rosario , Rosario (Argentina).

literature

  • Marta Poszumska, Andrea Fink: Imagination - Pictures by Jan Bociaga and Antoni Karwowski. July 4 to August 22, 1999 , catalog for the exhibition in the Ostholstein Museum .

Web links

Commons : Antoni Karwowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Practice for radiation therapy at the Dortmund Clinic, Dr. med. R. Kohn & colleagues
  2. ↑ Marta Poszumska, Andrea Fink: imagination - Pictures by Jan Bocia̧ga and Antoni Karwowski . Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin 1999, DNB no. 957383681 . (Catalog for the exhibition from July 4 to August 22, 1999)
  3. ↑ selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Traveling exhibition website. (Retrieved February 18, 2010.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / self.engad.org
personal data
SURNAME Karwowski, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Grajewo