Zdzisław Głowacki

Zdzisław Głowacki (born November 20, 1919 in Łódź ; † March 18, 1987 ibid) was a Polish painter .

Life

Głowacki studied in 1938 and 1939 and from 1944 to 1948 at the Cracow Academy of Art under Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa . He received his diploma in 1952. Głowacki was a member of the artist group “Piate Kolo” ( Fifth Circle ). From 1960 he taught as a professor at the Art Academy (then: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Sztuk Plastycznych w Łodzi ) in Łódź, from 1985 he was the dean of the Faculty of Art Education. He later became the rector of that university.

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Głowacki mainly painted portraits and socialist-realistic genre pictures . Portraits of communist personalities were created, for example by Rosa Luxemburg and Julian Balthasar Marchlewski as well as scenes with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Felix Dzerzhinsky . From the mid-1950s, after a trip to Italy, elements of tachism were increasingly incorporated into his compositions.

“ ... I became the first tachist in Poland, but I didn't invent it. It only charmed me that one can evoke completely different actions while maintaining all the formal requirements of artistic painting that are forever valid.

Original Polish quote:
... zostałem pierwszym w Polsce taszystą, gdyż tego nie wymyśliłem. Urzekło mnie tylko to, że można zachowując wszystkie przesłanki formalne obowiązujące zawsze w sztuce malarskiej, wywoływać inne działania. "

- Catalog Przewrotny socrealista-taszysta Zdzisław Głowacki , Museum of Industrial History in Opatów , exhibition July to September 1997

The artist later experimented with expressionist and cubist techniques. From 1960 he also worked with unconventional materials and display methods. His works have been exhibited in various places, including several National Art Exhibitions in Warsaw in the 1950s, the National Young Art Exhibition in the Warsaw Arsenal in 1955, and the 3rd Warsaw Modern Art Exhibition in 1959. Among other awards, he was awarded in 1955 the Art prize of the city of Łódź excellent. The Polish national museums in Szczecin and Warsaw and the Łódź Art Museum have works by the artist.

References and comments

1. ↑ Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa, b. Rudza (1897–1988) was a Polish painter, university professor and head of the dean's office for painting at the Cracow School of Art. She was married to Jan Cybis .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} according to the biographical information page is no longer available , search in web archives: Zdzisław Głowacki (1919 - 1987, Polska) on the website of the Polish auction house Agra-Art (in Polish)

literature

• Tomasz Adam Pruszak: Malarstwo polskie ze zbiorow Narodowego Banku Polskiego ( Polish Paintings in the Collection of the National Bank of Poland ), NBP - National Bank Poland (Ed.), Verlag Rosikon Press, Warsaw 2009, pp. 52 and 89, ISBN 978- 83-88848-69-8 .