Jan Wodyński

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Jan Wodyński (born July 31, 1903 in Jasło , † June 23, 1988 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter.

After attending secondary school in his hometown, Wodyński studied from 1923 to 1929 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, painting with Wojciech Weiss and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski . He joined the Rytm group in 1931 and the Przymat group in 1933 . From 1937 he was assistant to his teacher Kowarski. In 1939 he stayed in France and Italy for six months as a scholarship holder of the Fundusz Kultury Narodowej . During the German occupation he lived in Warsaw and Jasło and restored historical paintings.

From 1946 he was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń . From 1947 to 1951 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, then until his retirement in 1972 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw .

Wodyński painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits, and from the late 1960s also abstract paintings. He also created panel paintings, mosaics and sgreffiti. Stylistically, it is attributed to post-impressionism .

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