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Władysław Strzemiński (21 November 1893 – 26 December 1952) was a Polish avant-garde painter of international renown.

Life and work

Strzemiński was born in Minsk to an ethnic Polish family. In 1914, he graduated from the Military School of Civil Engineering. During World War I he served as second lieutenant at the Osowiec Fortress. In 1915 he was severely wounded in the Attack of the Dead Men. In 1920 he married Katarzyna Kobro.[1]

In 1922 he moved to Wilno (now Vilnius), and in the following year supported Vytautas Kairiūkštis in creating the first avant-garde art exhibition in what is now the territory of Lithuania (then under Polish rule).[2]

In November 1923 he moved to Warsaw, where with Henryk Berlewi he founded the constructivist group Blok.

During the 1920s he formulated his theory of Unism (Unizm in Polish). His paintings inspired the musical compositions of the Polish composer Zygmunt Krauze. He is an author of a revolutionary book titled "The theory of vision." He was co creator of unique avant-garde art collection in Łódź gathered together thanks to the enthusiasm of members of the “a.r.” group as Katarzyna Kobro and Henryk Stażewski (the artists) and Julian Przyboś and Jan Brzękowski (the poets).[3]

In postwar Łódź he was an instructor at the Higher School of Plastic Arts and Design Neoplastic Room in Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, where one of his students was Halina Ołomucki, survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.[4] His Neoplastic Room was installed in the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź in 1948 but was removed in 1950 as it failed to fit in with the socialist realism aesthetic imposed by Włodzimierz Sokorski, the minister of culture of the Polish United Workers' Party.

His works have been exhibited in such museums around the world as Centre Pompidou,[5] Museo Reina Sofia,[6] Moderna Museet Malmö[7] and Whitechapel Gallery.[8]

In film

He is the subject of Afterimage (2016), the final film by Andrzej Wajda.

References

Bibliography

1. Władysław Strzemiński. Readability of Images. Proceedings of the international conference devoted to the work of Władysław Strzemiński, 13–14 October 2011, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź 2015.
2. Władysław Strzemiński 1893–1952. On the 100th Anniversary of His Birth, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Łódź 1993.

See also

• Biography
• Essays on Władysław Strzemiński
• Work Information
• International Collection of Modern Art of the “a.r.” group

На других языках

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[de] Władysław Strzemiński

Władysław Strzemiński (belarussisch Уладыслаў Страмінскі; * 21. November 1893 in Minsk, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 26. Dezember 1952 in Łódź, Volksrepublik Polen) war ein polnischer Maler, Kunsttheoretiker und Hochschullehrer.

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- [en] Władysław Strzemiński

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[fr] Władysław Strzemiński

Władysław Strzemiński, né le 21 novembre 1893 à Minsk (alors dans l'Empire russe, actuellement en Biélorussie), mort le 28 décembre 1952 à Łódź, est un peintre et théoricien de l'art polonais.

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[ru] Стржеминский, Владислав Максимилианович

Владислав Максимилианович Стржеминский, также Стшеминьский (польск. Władysław Strzemiński, белор. Уладзіслаў Стжэміньскі, 9 [21] ноября 1893, Минск — 26 декабря 1952, Лодзь) — русский, польский и белорусский художник, авангардист, теоретик унизма в абстрактном искусстве[1]. Участник Первой мировой войны, георгиевский кавалер.

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