Czapski Józef (ur. 1896 Przyluki (Belarus)).
Painter, draftsman, publicist, writer. He studied law in St. Petersburg. After 1920 lives in Krakow, where he began his artistic studies under J. Pankiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts. W 1924 Together with his colleagues from the studios forming the Paris Committee, he left for Paris, spending seven years there. After returning to Poland, he participated in the group's exhibitions, he worked in ISP, he worked on a great monograph by J. Pankiewicz, which he issued in 1938 r. During World War II, he found himself in the USSR, from where, as an officer in the 1st Corps, he traveled through Persia and Italy to France, where he settled permanently in 1944. His painting is based on very ordinary motifs, common even; unsophisticated landscape, figural compositions derived from the observation of everyday gray street life, a bar or a subway car. Czapski's paintings are rough, surprising color combinations, dramatism, strong expression and often even gloomy grotesque.
Painter, draftsman, publicist, writer. He studied law in St. Petersburg. After 1920 lives in Krakow, where he began his artistic studies under J. Pankiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts. W 1924 Together with his colleagues from the studios forming the Paris Committee, he left for Paris, spending seven years there. After returning to Poland, he participated in the group's exhibitions, he worked in ISP, he worked on a great monograph by J. Pankiewicz, which he issued in 1938 r. During World War II, he found himself in the USSR, from where, as an officer in the 1st Corps, he traveled through Persia and Italy to France, where he settled permanently in 1944. His painting is based on very ordinary motifs, common even; unsophisticated landscape, figural compositions derived from the observation of everyday gray street life, a bar or a subway car. Czapski's paintings are rough, surprising color combinations, dramatism, strong expression and often even gloomy grotesque.
The scene in the park, ok. 1937
oil, canvas, 80,5 x 64,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
oil, canvas, 80,5 x 64,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
Forest opera house in Sopot, 1937
oil, canvas, 73 x 54,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
oil, canvas, 73 x 54,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
Urban view
oil, canvas, 81 x 60 cm;
Lviv Picture Gallery;
oil, canvas, 81 x 60 cm;
Lviv Picture Gallery;
