Kazimierz Podsadecki

Kazimierz Podsadecki (born July 24, 1904 in Zabierzów , † July 10, 1970 in Kraków ) was a Polish painter and graphic artist . He also worked under the pseudonym "Kapo 9".

He finished his art studies at the Industrial School in Cracow in 1923. He then began to work for the magazine Zwrotnica, published by Tadeusz Peiper , in which he published photomontages. From 1926 he designed the graphic design of the magazine.

At the first exhibition of the group “ Praesens ” Podsadecki presented eight abstract constructivist works. From 1928 he worked with the magazine Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny , in which he also published photo montages. From 1931 to 1933 he worked as a graphic designer for the short-lived literature and art magazine Linia . In 1932 he took part in the international typography exhibition of the Institute for Art Propaganda, organized by the left group AR , in Łódź.

From 1932 to 1934 he worked in the Kraków Atelier of Polish Avant-garde Film, where he was also involved in photomontages. Kazimierz Podsadecki began painting in 1935 and became a member of the Polish Fine Arts Union in Kraków. In September 1939 he was drafted into the army and taken prisoner by the Germans during the war. After the war he settled in Szczecin. There he was involved in founding a representation of the Association of Polish Visual Artists . In 1952 he settled in Krakow as a painter.

Podsadecki's works are in the collections of the Art Museum in Łódź , the National Museum in Cracow and the National Museum in Warsaw .

literature

• Adam Sobota: Podsadecki, Kazimierz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 96, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023262-2 , p. 190.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kazimierz Podsadecki | Życie i twórczość | Artysta. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .