Eugeniusz Arct
Eugeniusz Arct (born December 24, 1899 in Odessa , † January 22, 1974 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter and university professor.
Life
Arct studied from 1918 to 1920 at the arts and crafts school in Lucerne with Joseph von Moos and from 1923 to 1930 at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with Tadeusz Pruszkowski . He completed his studies in 1936. From 1929 to 1939 he was a founding member of the Warsaw artist group "Szkoła Warszawska" and since 1934 at "Blok Zawodowych Artystów Plastyków" ( Blok ZAP ), with whom he exhibited. From 1930 he worked as an assistant at the Warsaw Art Academy , in 1946 he became a junior professor and from 1950 he worked as a professor at the university. For several years he was dean of the painting faculty. Arcts was an active member of the Association of Polish Visual Artists ZPAP .
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His works are mainly landscape paintings and still lifes in oil; he found his motifs predominantly in Warsaw, but also in Kazimierz Dolny , Italy and Switzerland. His work was influenced by the post-Impressionist movements around Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Polish colorism .
Arct exhibited his paintings at home and abroad. So were his works at the exhibition of Polish art in Moscow in 1933, the Biennale in Venice of 1934 and 1952 and in 1934, in the gallery of the 1937 and 1938 Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh shown. His pictures were also exhibited at the art exhibition of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , the "Exposition internationale des arts et techniques dans la Vie Moderne" as part of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the " World Exposition " in New York in 1939.
In 1978 an exhibition of his works was held posthumously in the Galeria Zachęta in Warsaw. His works were bought by the National Museum in Warsaw , the Polish Museum of America in Chicago (English: "The Polish Museum of America") and the Museum of Warsaw .
literature
- Tomasz Adam Pruszak: Malarstwo polskie ze zbiorow Narodowego Banku Polskiego ( Polish Paintings in the Collection of the National Bank of Poland ), ed. from NBP (National Bank Poland), Rosikon Press, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 978-83-88848-69-8 , pp. 36 and 79f.
Web links
- Eugeniusz Arct in a group photo of Warsaw artists from the 1930s (Arct is standing on the ladder, with a bow tie)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph von Moos was a painter and director of the Lucerne School of Applied Arts . His son is Max von Moos
- ↑ a b Eugeniusz Arct ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2010 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. , on the website of the Polish auction house DESA Unicum (in Polish)
- ↑ Here he received a special mention.
- ↑ Here Arct received a silver medal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arct, Eugeniusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd January 1974 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |