Artur Nacht-Samborski
Artur Nacht-Samborski , originally Artur Nacht (born May 26, 1898 in Krakow , † October 9, 1974 in Warsaw ), was a Polish painter and university professor.
Artur Nacht studied from 1917 to 1920 at the Cracow School of Art with Wojciech Weiss and Józef Mehoffer and from 1923 to 1924 with Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and Józef Pankiewicz . He also studied in Berlin and Vienna . In 1924 he came to Paris with a group of young painters from the so-called “ Paris Committee ” and stayed there until 1939.
He spent the years 1941 and 1942 in the Lviv ghetto . He managed to flee to Krakow and later to Warsaw, where he survived the Second World War under the code name Stefan Samborski . After the war he added his alias to supplement his real surname. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as a professor at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk and from 1949 to 1969 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw . Jan Lebenstein and Grzegorz Moryciński were among his students .
In 1959, pictures of night samborski were shown at the Venice Biennale . A small selection of his works was exhibited posthumously in 1974 by the National Museum in Poznan (which houses the largest collection of his paintings). Extensive solo exhibitions were organized - also posthumously - in 1977 in the National Museum in Warsaw and again in 1999 in the Poznan National Museum and in the Warsaw National Art Gallery Zachęta .
His work is equally influenced by German expressionism and Polish colorism .
Web links
- Małgorzata Kitowska-Łysiak, biography of the painter (in English)
- Views of various pictures by the artist
- Gallery on artnet
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| SURNAME | Night Samborski, Artur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samborski, Stefan (code name); Night, Artur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1974 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |