Adam Marczyński
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Adam Marczynski
(b Krak?w, 24 June 1908; d Krak?w, 13 Jan 1985). Polish painter, sculptor and draughtsman. Between 1930 and 1936 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krak?w. During the 1930s he had contacts with the Krak?w group. The simplified form of his early compositions, most of which were destroyed in World War II, was at that time a popular interpretation of Expressionism and Cubism, while the treatment of the subject and subtle range of colour link these works to the Polish school of colourism. Between 1945 and 1955 he produced drawings and monotypes of transparent composition and delicate line. His fascination with motifs from everyday life and nature (without conflicting with the doctrines of Socialist Realism, which he managed to bypass) produced intimate and lyrical works, ranging from realism to modernist compositions resembling at times the drawings of Paul Klee or Yves Tanguy (e.g. Herbarium, c. 1955).
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Adam Marczyński (24 December 1908 – 13 January 1985) was a Polish painter. He died in Kraków. Marczyński 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. Marczyński taught at the academy from 1945 to 1979. 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. Marczyński 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, Marczyński began making compositions in small cases. These items have doors that open and close; they became his main artistic focus.
Marczyński 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 retrospective done posthumously at the Gallery of the Office of Artistic Exhibitions in Kraków.
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