Niesiołowski Tymon

Niesiołowski Tymon (ur. 1882 Lviv, zm. 1965 Toruń).
Painter, chart, pedagogue, member grouped the Group of Five, Formists, Rhythm. W I. 1900-04 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with J.. Mehoffera i S. Wyspiański. Thanks to the latter, he made his debut at the Art Salon 1903/04 three compositions. W l. 1906-26 he lived in Zakopane, establishing numerous friendships with poets, writers and painters, who eagerly stayed at Giewont. In the period 1908-09 belonged to the Krakow Group of Five, he traveled to Munich and Italy. W 1912 he was in Paris. W 1917 he became one of the founders of the Formist group. W 1922, after the disintegration of this grouping, he became involved with the Rhythm. He collaborated with a Krakow literary magazine “Even”. W 1926 he moved permanently to Vilnius, where in 1929 started teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts USB. From 1945 he lived in Toruń, where he was a professor of an analogous department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Among Niesiołowski's works, still lifes with a rich rhythm of forms and planes stand out, acts, characterized by a well-thought-out arrangement of bodies and the colorful background of the backdrop. The series of circus performers is also characteristic, revealing the artist's passion for the world of fantasy, sophisticated forms, unreal colors and fantastic lines. The composition of his works emphasizes the rhythm of lines and colors. These elements constituted harmonious chords, on which the artist based the construction of his works?.

Fishermen, ok. 1920
oil, canvas, 64,5 x 63,5 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;

 


The boy in a pointed cap, ok. 1930
oil, cardboard, 68 x 50 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;