Wacław Zawadowski

Jan Wacław Zawadowski , pseudonym "Zawado" (born April 14, 1891 in Skobełka in the Volyn Voivodeship , then Poland; † November 15, 1982 in Orcel near Aix-en-Provence , France) was a Polish painter and one in the 1920s important member of the École de Paris . Before the Second World War he was the rector of the Paris branch of the Cracow Academy of Art .

Life

Zawadowski was born in what is now the Ukrainian town of Skobełka, his brother was Witold Eugeniusz Zawadowski . He studied from 1910 to 1912 at the Cracow Art Academy under Józef Pankiewicz . Fellow students and close friends were Moïse Kisling and Szymon Mondszajn . From 1912 he lived in Paris after visiting Vienna and Venice . There he was known to Blaise Cendrars , Guillaume Apollinaire , Marc Chagall , Fernand Léger , Robert Delaunay and Max Jacob .

After his friend and artist colleague Amedeo Modigliani , who had also made a portrait of Zawadowski, died from tuberculosis , he moved into his studio. He spent the years of the First World War in Spain. From 1919 to 1930 he lived again in Paris, then later near Aix-en-Provence. In 1938 he took over the management of the Parisian branch of the Cracow Art Academy from Pankiewicz, which he held until the outbreak of war in 1939. In 1949 he turned down an offer to teach as a professor at the Academy in Cracow.

In 1925 he became a member of the Krakow artist group "Jednoróg" (Polish: "Cech Artystów Plastyków Jednoróg"). In 1928 Zawadowski was a founding member of the Society of Polish Artists in Paris (French: "Cercle des Artistes Polonais"). He was also a member of the Warsaw Society for the Advancement of Art .

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Zawadowski's work was mainly influenced by post-impressionism . The artist's models were Paul Cézanne and Pierre Bonnard, as well as the Dutch masters of the baroque . He was a landscape painter (preferred motifs came from Provence ) who also created still lifes , portraits, nudes and genre paintings . He repeatedly grappled with the relationship between colors and light. At first he painted in rather cool and pale tones (for example series on the run-down industrial and working-class districts of Paris), from 1930 onwards his pictures became more colorful. After the Second World War, watercolors were also created. Zawadoski signed his pictures with a short form of his last name - "Zawado".

From 1913 onwards, Zawadowski's works were shown at exhibitions by gallery owner Paul Cassirer in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Munich. He also took part in the exhibitions of the Paris Salon (autumn 1920) and the Salon des Indépendants (1914, 1920 and 1921). He was exhibited with other Polish artists in 1922 at the Musée Crillon in Paris and in various important galleries (“des Beaux-Art”, “Bernheim”). They were also shown in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan and Łódź before World War II. Solo exhibitions took place in London in 1937 (Gallery "Adams") and 1940 (Gallery "Le Fevre"). After the war it was presented at solo exhibitions in Kraków (1959), Lausanne (1968), Wrocław (1974), the Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw (1982) and Aix-en-Provence. In 1975 he received a solo exhibition in the Kraków Palace of Culture. His works were shown posthumously at the exhibition Polish Cultural Treasures from the Collection of the Polish Library in Paris (Polish: "Skarby Kultury Polskiej ze Zbiorow Biblioteki Polskiej w Parizu") in the National Museum in Cracow in 2004.

References and comments

1. ↑ Witold Eugeniusz Zawadowski (1888–1980) was an important Polish radiologist and professor at universities in Warsaw
2. ↑ Szymon Mondszajn (1888-1979) was a Polish-Jewish painter
3. ↑ ^{a b c} according to Information in the article Modern Art on the website of the Historical Museum in Sanok (in English)
4. ↑ according to Information Polish Cultural Treasures  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   at Culture.pl (in English)

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, Warsaw 1992, ISBN 83-221-0623-8 , p. 178ff.