Zbigniew Pronaszko

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Zbigniew Pronaszko, 1949

Zbigniew Pronaszko (born May 27, 1885 in Debreczyn near Jampol , † February 8, 1958 in Krakow ) was a Polish painter, sculptor, set designer and university teacher. He is counted among the outstanding representatives of Polish Expressionism and the Polish avant-garde in the interwar period .

Life

Pronaszko was the son of a factory owner and studied from 1906 to 1911 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev and under Teodor Axentowicz and Jacek Malczewski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow . He toured Paris, Italy and Munich. From 1914 to 1917 he lived in Zakopane .

In 1917, together with his younger brother Andrzej (1888–1961) and the painter Titus Czyżewski, he founded the group of artists "Ekspresjoniści Polscy" (German: Polish Expressionists ; later renamed Formists ). He organized their first exhibition (1917) in Krakow. In 1919 and 1920 he worked at the Warsaw “Reduta” theater as a set designer and in 1925 and 1926 in the same function for the “Bogusławski” theater ( Teatr im. Bogusławskiego ). He was also a co-founder of the avant-garde theater "Cricot". From 1923 to 1925 he was a lecturer at the art faculty of the University of Vilnius .

From 1925 he taught at the Free Painting School in Cracow and from 1945 he worked as a professor at the Cracow Academy. His students were Stefan Gierowski (* 1925) and Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957).

In 1953 he won a state second class award (Polish: Nagroda Państwowa II stopnia ). In 1954, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of Poland, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta . In 1949 he was awarded by the Polish President Boleslaw Bierut the Order Banner of Labor second class (Pol .: Order Sztandaru Pracy).

In addition to artists such as Edward Okuń , Felicjan Kowarski and Leonard Pękalski , he was involved in the facade paintings of the houses on the Old Market in Warsaw in the interwar period .

Pronaszko exhibited regularly at home and abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. It was shown several times by the Society of Friends of the Fine Arts in Krakow (1913, 1921, 1928, 1929 and 1932) and by comparable institutions in Warsaw (1919, 1931, 1935, 1936 and 1937). He was in Lviv (1911, 1912 and 1913), at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1931), at the Venice Biennale (1932), at the Autumn Salon (1928) and the World Exhibition in Paris (1937), in the Secession Hall in Vienna (1928) as represented at many other group and solo exhibitions.

Pronaszko's work

His work is a mixture of formism and colorism (capism). Early paintings show Malczewski's influence. From 1912 cubist- expressionist forms appeared in his statues . Such clear cubist elements were found for the first time among the Polish painters. A classical phase followed. The monument he designed by Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius in 1922 unites the dynamic expression of expressionism with the monumental expression of classicism in a successful symbiosis. From the mid-1920s onwards, post-impressionist pictures were created - landscapes, portraits and still lifes with accented colors; initially dark in color, from the mid-1930s increasingly lighter and more decorative.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Info at The J. Paul Getty Trust (catalog)
  2. ↑ according to Daily newspaper Dziennik Polski , Volume IX, No. 173 (2948), p. 7
  3. ↑ according to Uchwała Rady Państwa of July 15, 1954, in: Monitor Polski 954, no.112, item 1564
  4. ↑ according to Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej of July 22, 1949, in: Monitor Polski , 1950, No. 6, Item 58
  5. ↑ according to Jacek Friedrich, Heidemarie Petersen (translator), New city in an old guise. Reconstruction of Danzig 1945-1960 , ISBN 978-3-412-20312-2 , Böhlau, Köln Weimar Vienna 2010, p. 142
  6. ↑ according to Susanne Böttcher (ed.), Andrea Unseld and Karin Weidlich (transl.), Poland. From fine sandy Baltic Sea beaches, cities with eventful history and untouched nature , ISBN 978-3-8342-8993-3 , Travel-House-Media, Munich 2006, p. 39

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. 168 f.

See also

Web links

Commons : Zbigniew Pronaszko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Image gallery at Artyzm.com (accessed September 14, 2012, in Polish)
  • Irena Kossowska, CV at Culture.pl (accessed on September 14, 2012, in Polish)
personal data
SURNAME Pronaszko, Zbigniew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter, sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Debreczyn near Jampol
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1958
Place of death Krakow