Lewicki, Leopold (ur. 1908 Burdiakowce, zm. 1973 Lviv).
Painter, chart, member of the Krakow Group. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the studio of J.. Wojnarski. He has been exhibiting since 1932 participating in the shows of the Modern Artists Group and the Krakow Group in Krakow and Warsaw. W 1936 he settled in Lviv taking a lively part in the exhibitions organized in that city. He was one of the initiators of establishing the Krakow Group, bringing together artists with radical socio-political and artistic views.. The members of the Group pursued a modern form in various ways, both abstract tendencies were revealed in their works, as well as expressionist or surreal. At Lewicki's, the group's most radical painter, There is also a reference to purism. The nature of his work was written by L.. Whistle, that it is: “true, simple and brutal art, primitive of the most honest species, growing out of our black, truly fertile land”. After 1936 Lewicki formulated a new painting concept, for which he drew inspiration from the art of P.. Klee and at the same time so different in character of the style of G.. A penny.
Painter, chart, member of the Krakow Group. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the studio of J.. Wojnarski. He has been exhibiting since 1932 participating in the shows of the Modern Artists Group and the Krakow Group in Krakow and Warsaw. W 1936 he settled in Lviv taking a lively part in the exhibitions organized in that city. He was one of the initiators of establishing the Krakow Group, bringing together artists with radical socio-political and artistic views.. The members of the Group pursued a modern form in various ways, both abstract tendencies were revealed in their works, as well as expressionist or surreal. At Lewicki's, the group's most radical painter, There is also a reference to purism. The nature of his work was written by L.. Whistle, that it is: “true, simple and brutal art, primitive of the most honest species, growing out of our black, truly fertile land”. After 1936 Lewicki formulated a new painting concept, for which he drew inspiration from the art of P.. Klee and at the same time so different in character of the style of G.. A penny.
A figural composition with a figure in a cylinder
oil, cardboard, 35,5 x 36,5 cm;
National Museum in Krakow;
oil, cardboard, 35,5 x 36,5 cm;
National Museum in Krakow;
