Boleslaw Cybis

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Bolesław Cybis (* 1895 in Massandra , Tauria Governorate , Russian Empire , † 1957 in Trenton , New Jersey ) was a Polish-American painter, sculptor and ceramicist.

Life

Boleslaw Cybis was born in Lithuania as the son of an important architect, mainly active in Russia, and grew up in Wilno and St. Petersburg . He studied at the Art Academy in Kharkov . From 1915 he attended the Art Academy in St. Petersburg . In 1921 he fled from the political upheavals to Constantinople , where he lived and worked with the artists Constantin Alajalov and Pavel Tchelitchev . He made a living from public portrait drawings, theater poster painting, wall painting in nightclubs and stage decorations. One of his first large orders was the production of a large-format billboard for Nestlé chocolate. In 1923 he returned to Warsaw, where he attended the Warsaw Art Academy under Tadeusz Pruszkowski . After graduating, Cybis was appointed to teach at this college. He traveled through Europe, got to know and appreciate the painting techniques of the old masters. In 1926 he married Marja Tym, a student at the academy. Cybis was one of the co-founders of the artist group “Bractwa św. Łukasza ”.

painting

Cybis received international recognition for his paintings, murals and sculptures. They have been exhibited in Paris, Geneva, Munich, Frankfurt, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bucharest and Vienna. From 1926 to 1930 he mainly painted rural scenes and people in the style of medieval painting. From the 1930s his work was shown in the USA. The Studio Magazine described his pictures in April 1934 as a throwback to Leonardo da Vinci . In 1932 he lived in Tripoli , where he also experimentally used cement in his pictures. In the next few years his works were presented in the Brooklyn Museum of Art , in museums in Chicago and Dayton as well as at the international art exhibitions in the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo . In 1934 his pictures were shown at the Venice Biennale . From 1934 to 1937 he created other frescoes with Jan Zamoyski ("Bolesław Chrobry wytyczający granice Polski na Odrze"). In 1937 he was one of the designers of the Polish pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris . He received a Grand Prix for his ceiling painting of the pavilion .

In 1939 Cybis and his wife traveled to the United States to do murals in the Hall of Honor at the 1939 New York World's Fair, commissioned by the New York City Council . Cybis created two frescoes : Polish fighters for American independence (Poles Fighting for American Independence) and Industrieviertel and Gdynia ("Central Industrial District and Gdynia"). In the following years the couple toured the United States and portrayed Indians . Two pictures in this series were given to the US President Richard Nixon by the Polish government in 1972 .

Many of his pictures can be found in museum collections in Poland, among others in the national museums in Warsaw , Szczecin and Gdansk, as well as in regional museums in Toruń , Bydgoszcz and Lublin .

Porcelain art

Due to the outbreak of World War II , the Cybis couple decided to apply for US citizenship. Cybis then turned to porcelain art. The couple set up in 1940 the "Cybis studio" in the Steinway Mansion in New York district of Astoria one. After moving to Trenton, New Jersey, Cybis developed porcelain working techniques that were derived from his studies of the old masters in Europe. Cybis worked hard to perfect his skills and in a short period of time became a pre-eminent porcelain artist. His porcelain works have been included in permanent exhibitions in museums. The company Cybis Porcelain still produces in Trenton today .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c according to Information Bolesław Cybis. 1895-1957. Malarstwo at Polishartworld.com (in Polish)
  2. ↑ a b c according to Information Boleslaw Cybis (1895–1957) - Monographic Exhibition ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Culture.pl on the occasion of an exhibition in the National Museum in Warsaw from September 21 to November 3, 2002 (in English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culture.pl
  3. ^ The Ceramic Industrial Journal, October 1948
personal data
SURNAME Cybis, Boleslaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American painter, sculptor and ceramicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Massandra , Taurian Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1957
Place of death Trenton , New Jersey