Tytus Czyżewski
Tytus Czyżewski (born December 28, 1880 in Przyszowa in Galicia , † May 5, 1945 in Krakow ) was a Polish painter, poet and art critic. He was one of the founders of the Polish Formists .
Life
From 1902 to 1907 Czyżewski studied at the Art Academy in Cracow under Józef Mehoffer , Józef Unierzyski and Leon Wyczółkowski . He traveled to Paris and got to know the art developments there. He exhibited for the first time in 1906. His style was influenced by Paul Cézanne and El Greco , whose work he admired until the end of his life. After his return to Poland he found work as an art teacher at a middle school.
The Society of Friends of Art in Cracow held Czyżewski's first solo exhibition in 1910. The artist lived in Paris from 1910 to 1912 and learned the basics of Cubism here . When the First World War broke out , he went to Vienna. In 1917, with the brothers Zbigniew and Andrzej Pronaszko , he organized an exhibition of the work of Polish expressionists in Krakow . A resulting group of artists later became known as Polish Formists . Until the group broke up in 1922, Czyżewski was one of the leaders of the movement. He was co-editor of the Formiści magazine . He was also a co-founder of two clubs of Polish futurists ("Katarynka" in 1917 and "Gałka Muszkatołowa" in 1918) and published poems related to the futurists.
After the end of the formist movement, Czyżewski lived in Paris from 1922 to 1930. During this time he exhibited at the Autumn Salon (1926, 1928), the Salon des Indépendants (1923, 1924, 1925, 1926) and the Salon des Tuileries (1926, 1929). He experimented with surrealist styles.
After returning to Poland, he devoted himself to art criticism. He continued to exhibit, his works were at exhibitions of the Polish Art Propaganda Institute , at the "L'Art Vivant en Europe" in Brussels (1931), the world exhibition in Paris (1937), at exhibitions of the artist group New Generation in Lviv (1932) and the group of modern artists in Warsaw (1933). In 1934 he became co-editor of the magazine "Głos Plastyków" (German: Voice of the Artists), which propagated colorism . In 1944 he moved to Krakow, where he died a year later.
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d acc. Irena Kossowska, detailed biography ( memento of the original from January 6, 2011 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. at Culture.pl, Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences , December 2001 (in English)
Web links
- Pictures by Tytus Czyżewski at Malarze.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czyżewski, Tytus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter, poet and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Przyszowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Krakow |