Zbylut Grzywacz
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Poland
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painter
Painting
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, sculptor, graphic artist, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with paintings in permanent collections of the National Museum in Kraków, Warsaw, Poznań
National Museum, Poznań
The National Museum, Poznań , Poland, is a national institution of culture and one of the largest museums in Poland. It comprise a rich collection of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting...
, Gdańsk
National Museum, Gdańsk
National Museum in Gdańsk , established in 1972 , is one of the main branches of Poland's National Museum system....
and Wrocław. Grzywacz took part in over a hundred Polish and international art exhibits, with around 40 one-man shows to his credit.
Grzywacz studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and received his Master’s degree in 1963 in Emil Krcha atelier. He worked at the Academy as a teaching assistant in the Department of Painting since 1972 and in 1991 became a professor there. Interned during the martial law of 1981
Martial law in Poland
Martial law in Poland refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983, when the authoritarian government of the People's Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush political opposition to it. Thousands of opposition...
Grzywacz was an active supporter of the dissident
Dissident
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movement in communist Poland.
Major series of paintings
- 1965-69 - Orantki, świadkowie, mówcy, padający (Oracles, Witnesses, Speakers, and the Falling)
- 1966-67 - Utrwalone (Preserved), reliefs
- 1971-75 - Człowiek bez jakości (Man without quality), paintings and assemblage
- 1970-75 - Lalki (Dolls)
- 1971-79 - Opuszczona (Abandoned)
- 1974-79 - Domy (Homes)
- 1976-81 - Cykl wołowy (Beef series)
- 1982-88 - Dwoje (The Two)
- 1982-86 - Kolejka (The Lineup)
- 1987-93 - Oddalona (Distant She)
- 1994 - 9 obrazów (9 Paintings)