Adam Marczyński

Adam Marczyński (ur. Cracow 1908, He died 13 January 1985, Cracow).
Painter, chart, scenographer, pedagogue, member of the Krakow Group. He studied at. 1929-36 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the supervision of W.. Jarocki and I.. Pieńkowski. At that time, he also traveled to France and Spain. From 1933 takes an active part in exhibitions. He is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Initially, he created still lifes, landscapes and portrait studies influenced by synthetic cubism, gradually oscillating more and more towards abstraction. In the post-war period, he painted geometrised for some time, also not devoid of links with colorism, figural compositions, interiors and landscapes, to finally turn to abstraction. At the same time, he was expanding his workshop with new technical means and methods. In recent years, he has abandoned creating an image of illusion in favor of an image-object. She creates collages from various materials (m.i. tanned boards and sheets) or closed and open relief systems and assemblages, working spatial composition and moving elements, affecting the change of the angle of incidence of light, and hence the change in color intensity.

Fruit on the table, 1937
oil, canvas, 65 x 50 cm;
National Museum in Krakow;