Sasha (Szaje), Lace (Andre Blondel) (ur. 1909 Chortkiv, zm. 1949 Paris).
Painter, member of the Krakow Group. W l. 1931-32 he studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the same time in the l. 1931-34 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the supervision of T.. Axentowicz, W. Jarocki and F.. Pautscha. During his studies in Krakow, he collaborated with the left-wing groups KZM and ZNMS “Life”. He was a co-founder of the Żywi artistic group and the Krakow Group, bringing together the artistic and political avant-garde. He exhibited with the Group in. 1933-37, participated in IPS exhibitions in the l. 1936-37, had an individual exhibition in the Koterba showroom in Warsaw in 1937. In the same year he moved to Paris for good. During the war he belonged to the French resistance movement. From 1942 began to use the assumed name of Andre Blondel. After 1945 he was active in Paris and in the south of France, taking part in numerous exhibitions. W 1959, on the tenth anniversary of his death, there was a big show of his work in Narbonne and Sete. W 1970 a large retrospective took place at the National Museum in Krakow, covering close 250 artist's works. Striving was the dominant tendency visible in Blonder's painting, getting stronger, to enhance your expressiveness, deepen expression, constituting the common denominator of his artistic endeavors in the subsequent stages of his creativity.
Painter, member of the Krakow Group. W l. 1931-32 he studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the same time in the l. 1931-34 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the supervision of T.. Axentowicz, W. Jarocki and F.. Pautscha. During his studies in Krakow, he collaborated with the left-wing groups KZM and ZNMS “Life”. He was a co-founder of the Żywi artistic group and the Krakow Group, bringing together the artistic and political avant-garde. He exhibited with the Group in. 1933-37, participated in IPS exhibitions in the l. 1936-37, had an individual exhibition in the Koterba showroom in Warsaw in 1937. In the same year he moved to Paris for good. During the war he belonged to the French resistance movement. From 1942 began to use the assumed name of Andre Blondel. After 1945 he was active in Paris and in the south of France, taking part in numerous exhibitions. W 1959, on the tenth anniversary of his death, there was a big show of his work in Narbonne and Sete. W 1970 a large retrospective took place at the National Museum in Krakow, covering close 250 artist's works. Striving was the dominant tendency visible in Blonder's painting, getting stronger, to enhance your expressiveness, deepen expression, constituting the common denominator of his artistic endeavors in the subsequent stages of his creativity.
Composition in the quarries
oil, canvas, 119 x 106 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
oil, canvas, 119 x 106 cm;
National Museum in Warsaw;
Composition with characters
oil and glue paints, canvas, 125 x 100 cm;
National Museum in Krakow;
oil and glue paints, canvas, 125 x 100 cm;
National Museum in Krakow;
Still life with a violin on a green background, 1933-34
oil, canvas, 73 x 97 cm;
property of the artist in Krakow;
oil, canvas, 73 x 97 cm;
property of the artist in Krakow;