Wojciech Fangor(1922-2015),Kompozycja,1969

pastel/paper , 29x46,5cm light framed,signed and dated p.d.Fangor69

Painter, graphic artist, author of environments. During the war years (1940-1944) he studied privately with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski, in 1946 he received his diploma in absentia from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1953-1961 he was a docent at his alma mater. He left Poland in 1961 and lived in the United States since 1966. In 1970 he had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. After 33 years, he returned to Poland. During the Socialist Realist period, he painted famous paintings such as Figures and Mother Korean, as well as many posters. Co-author (with Henryk Tomaszewski) of the decorations for the Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw in 1955. In 1957, with Stanislaw Zamecznik and Oskar Hansen, he presented the first Polish environment Spatial Composition at Zachęta, and later others, including Space Study (1958).