Dimensions: 163 x 65 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 't. Brzozowski. | 1981'
signed, dated and inscribed on the painter's loom: '163 x 65 | T. BRZOZOWSKI. | 1981 | 'SUCCOUR''
Provenance
private collection, Katowice
Starmach Gallery, Cracow (from 2008)
private collection, Cracow
Agra Art, 2005
private collection, Cracow
Exhibited
Artists from Cracow, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, August-September 1993.
Tadeusz Brzozowski. Painting, drawing, BWA, Cracow 1.06-1.07.1991.
Tadeusz Brzozowski. Friends. Students, BWA, Poznan, December 1981 (closed due to the imposition of martial law)
Exhibition of the Zakopane District of ZPAP, Zakopane, 1981
Literature
Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, [ed.] Anna Żakiewicz, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1997, p. 240, item 414
Biography
Beginning in 1936, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, continuing from 1940-1942 at the Kunstgewerbeschule, established in place of the Academy. During the occupation, he was associated with Tadeusz Kantor's Underground Theater - he played in Balladina (1943) and the leading role in The Return of Odysseus (1944). During this period he was also involved in art conservation, which proved fruitful for his own painting technique in the future. In 1945 he finally graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Until 1948, he exhibited with the Young Visual Artists Group, participating in the most important exhibitions of the young art movement, until the authorities imposed Socialist Realism as the prevailing style of painting. In 1954, he moved to Zakopane, where he began teaching at the Kenar School. During this period, he became a virtuoso of painting technique in the course of independent trials and experiences. Color, texture, the play of glazing and values, all the "alchemy" he used in his paintings made up the unique phenomenon of abstract painting, which was capable of "telling" with its very form. In 1955, he returned to participating in exhibitions, participating in numerous shows in Poland and abroad, also holding many solo exhibitions.
