Adam Marczyński, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Adam Marczyński

Polish artist

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1908

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1985

Profession: writer, author, painter

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Adam Marczyński

  • Adam Marczynski (24 December 1908 – 13 January 1985) was a Polish painter.
  • He died in Kraków. Marczynski came into his own as an artist of post-war Kraków.
  • He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
  • He started exhibiting in 1933 and had his first solo exhibition a few years after that.
  • Marczynski taught at the academy from 1945 to 1979.
  • One of his students at the academy was Zbigniew Zupnik.
  • Besides teaching, he was a painter, did illustrations, was a graphic artist, and even did scenery design.
  • Around the war years, he embraced cubism and a Polish variation of post-Impressionism, called Colorism.
  • Marczynski painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and interiors.
  • In the 1960s, he abandoned regular painting techniques, instead choosing to paint objects and make collages.
  • By the '70s, Marczynski began making compositions in small cases.
  • These items have doors that open and close; they became his main artistic focus.Marczynski exhibited at many international art festivals, including the Venice Biennale in 1956 and the documenta II in Kassel in 1959.
  • A catalogue was published in 1985 at a posthumous retrospective at the Gallery of the Office of Artistic Exhibitions in Kraków.

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