Name Wladyslaw Strzeminski | Role Author | |
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Died December 28, 1952, Lodz, Poland | ||
Wladyslaw strzeminski retrospective at ms2 lodz poland
Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Belarusian: Uladislaў Stramіnskі; 21 November 1893, Minsk – 28 December 1952, Lodz) was a Polish avant-garde painter of international renown.
In 1922 he moved to Vilnius, and in the following year supported Vytautas Kairiukstis in creating the first avant-garde art exhibition in Lithuania (then under Polish rule).
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 Unistic paintings inspired the unistic 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 Lodz gathered thanks to the enthusiasm of members of the “a.r.” group as Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stazewski (the artists) and Julian Przybos and Jan Brzekowski (the poets).
In postwar Lodz he was an instructor at the Higher School of Plastic Arts and design "Noeoplastic room" in Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz. where one of his students was Halina Olomucki, survivor of the German concentration camps.
