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The grave of Eugeniusz Eibisch and his wife Franciszka in the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw

Eugeniusz Eibisch (born December 30, 1896 in Lublin , † March 7, 1987 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter and university professor. He worked as the rector of the Cracow Art Academy and as the dean of the Warsaw Art School .

Life

Eibsch attended high school in Lublin. In 1920 he graduated from the Art Academy in Cracow under Professors Jacek Malczewski and Wojciech Weiss . Two years later he went to Paris on a French scholarship , where he worked with artists from the Modern First École de Paris ( Chaim Soutine , Maurice Utrillo , Louis Marcoussis , Wacław Zawadowski , Henryk Hayden , Eugeniusz Zak ). Here he made friends with the French writer Roger Martin du Gard , who used him as a model for one of his characters (Serge) in "Les Thibault". In 1939 Eibisch returned to Krakow, where he worked as a professor at the academy. From 1945 to 1950 he worked there as rector. He then worked as dean of the painting faculty at the Warsaw Art Academy until 1969. Eibisch has received numerous awards, including the renowned Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Prize in 1960 and the Art Prize (“Nagroda Plastyzczna”) from the City of Krakow.

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Initially influenced by formalism , Eibisch became an important exponent of Polish colorism in the 1930s and the post-war period . Eibisch mainly painted portraits, landscapes and still lifes. His carefully composed images are based on perspective and the actual relationship between objects. Even if he showed no interest in abstraction, some of his works with their characteristic blurred outlines also show echoes of this style.

In 1926 he took part (as a non-group member) in exhibitions of the artists' guild "Unicorn" ( Cech Artystów Plastyków "Jednoróg" ), although his painting differed from the style of the group. His pictures have been taken in Moscow (1952, 1965), Delhi (1956), Stockholm (1959), Nancy and Buenos Aires (1960), Oslo (1961), Paris ( Museum of Modern Art , 1961), and Essen ( Folkwang Museum , 1962). He was a participant in the Venice Biennale in 1952 and 1962. Pictures were bought by the national museums in Wroclaw , Cracow , Poznan and Warsaw . A retrospective of the artist was shown in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1969 , and another in the Art Academy in 1994. In October 2007, an exhibition of his paintings was organized in the castle museum of his native Lublin.

Significant works

• Still life with fish ("Martwa natura z rybą") (1938)
• Rudy Chłopak (1958)
• Landscape in Yugoslavia ("Pejzaż z Jugosławii") (1967)

Franciszka Eibisch Foundation

A foundation named after Eibisch's late wife Francizska ("Fundacja im. Franciszki Eibisch") was set up to promote talented young Polish painters.

literature

• Władysława Jaworska, Agnieszka Morawińska u. a., Malarstwo polskie w kolekcji Ewy i Wojciecha Fibakow ( Polish painting in the Ewa and Wojtek Fibak Collection ), Auriga Verlag, ISBN 83-221-0623-8 , Warsaw 1992, p. 244 ff.

Web links

• Detailed biography at Culture.pl (in Polish)
• Various pictures of the artist at Artyzm.com
• Website of the Fundacja im. Franciszki Eibisch (in Polish)