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N° 1 Georges Spiro Documented profile
Georges Spiro, born in Warsaw in 1909, was a Polish-French painter associated with Surrealism. Self-taught, he worked primarily in gouache. After settling in Nice in 1942, he helped…
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N° 2 Zbigniew Makowski Documented profile
The Polish artist Zbigniew Makowski (1930–2019) is associated with a Surrealist practice in which signs, numbers and letters create symbolic effects, against a backdrop of fascinatio…
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N° 3 Alfred Lenica Documented profile
Alfred Lenica, born in Pabianice in 1899, pursued a career in which music and painting intersected. He studied in Poznań, including at the conservatory and a private institute of fin…
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N° 4 Jan Mirosław Peszke Documented profile
Jean Peské (1870–1949) was a French painter and printmaker who settled in France in 1891. In Paris, he worked on decorative projects and illustrations, experimented with pointillism…
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N° 5 Францишек Старовейский Documented profile
Franciszek Starowieyski (1930–2009), born in Bratkówka, studied painting at the academies in Kraków and Warsaw, graduating in 1955. A painter, draughtsman, poster artist and stage de…
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N° 6 Moïse Kisling Documented profile
Moïse Kisling (1891–1953), listed as a Polish-French artist, had a career marked by moves between several places of work and study. After serving in the French Foreign Legion in 1915…
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N° 7 Vladimir de Terlikowski Documented profile
Wladimir de Terlikowski (1873–1951) developed a body of portraits and landscapes in Paris distinguished by his use of the palette knife. After brief studies in Munich and in Jean-Pau…
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N° 8 Henryk Hayden Documented profile
Henri Hayden, also known as Henryk Hayden-Wurcel, was a French painter and lithographer of Polish origin, born in Warsaw in 1883 and died in Paris in 1970. From 1902, he pursued tech…
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N° 9 Henryk Musiałowicz Documented profile
Henryk Musiałowicz, also known as Henryk Telesfor Musialowicz, was a painter, draughtsman and graphic artist. Born in Gniezno in 1914, he died in Warsaw in 2015. He studied at the Ac…
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N° 10 Edward Dwurnik Documented profile
The Polish painter Edward Dwurnik, born in 1943 in Radzymin and deceased in 2018 in Warsaw, began « Hitchhiking Journeys » in 1966, a major series in his oeuvre. He studied at the Fa…
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N° 11 Ryszard Winiarski Documented profile
A painter, creator of spatial forms and scenographer, Ryszard Winiarski makes chance a principle of visual construction, drawing in particular on probability, game theory and statist…
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N° 12 Stanisław Stückgold Documented profile
Stanisław Stückgold, also known as Stanislaus or Stanislas Stückgold, was a painter born in 1868 and died in 1933. Before devoting himself to painting, he studied at the Polytechniku…
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N° 13 Louis Marcoussis Documented profile
Louis Marcoussis’s work spans Cubist painting, printmaking and illustration. His subjects range from still lifes and musical instruments to portraits, views of Paris and Breton lands…
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N° 14 Tadeusz Kantor Documented profile
Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) was a Polish artist who brought painting, theatre, objects and actions into dialogue. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, he explored approaches…
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N° 15 Aleksander Kobzdej Documented profile
Aleksander Kobzdej (1920–1972), a Polish painter also trained in architecture, moved from Socialist Realism towards an investigation of pictorial matter. Thick paint and inserted mat…
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N° 16 Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski Documented profile
Alfred von Kowalski-Wierusz, whose death is dated to 1915 in both selected sources, is documented here through cataloguing references and a number of works identified by their titles…
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N° 17 Jankel Adler Documented profile
The Polish Jewish painter and printmaker Jankel Adler worked with subjects related to Judaism and, more occasionally, with abstract compositions. He experimented with different mater…
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N° 18 Sławomir Elsner Documented profile
Polish painter Sławomir Elsner is represented here by PANORAMA 21 (Fiat Polski in Babylon), an oil on canvas from 2006, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, measuring 75 × 45 cm.…
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N° 19 Stefan Domaradzki Documented profile
The Polish painter Stefan Domaradzki (1897–1983) is associated, among other things, with landscape painting. A commentary on his work describes his landscapes as carefully painted an…
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N° 20 Kajetan Sosnowski Documented profile
The Polish artist Kajetan Sosnowski, born in Vilnius in 1913 and deceased in Warsaw in 1987, directed his research towards the visual dimensions of art. His interest in the developme…
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N° 21 Ludwig Gedlek Documented profile
The Polish painter Ludwig Gedlek, born in Kraków in 1847 and died in Vienna in 1904, devotes a significant part of his oeuvre to the horse: almost all of his paintings depict one. Hi…
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N° 22 Ludwig Klimek Documented profile
Ludwig Klimek, also known as Ludwik, was a French painter of Polish origin, born in Skoczów in 1912. He died in 1992. After studying fine art in Kraków, he travelled to Paris on a sc…
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N° 23 Rafał Bujnowski Documented profile
Rafał Bujnowski, born in Wadowice in 1974, studied architecture and then graphic arts in Kraków. A member of the Ładnie group, he directed Galeria Otwarta between 1998 and 2001, an e…
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N° 24 Rajmund Ziemski Documented profile
Rajmund Ziemski (1930–2005) was a Polish painter born in Radom. From 1949 to 1955 he studied with Artur Nacht-Samborski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he later taught. He…
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N° 25 Artur Nacht-Samborski Documented profile
Artur Nacht-Samborski (1898–1974), born in Kraków and deceased in Warsaw, was a Polish painter associated with the Paris Committee, or Kapists. After studies in Kraków and periods in…
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N° 26 Jacek Malczewski Documented profile
Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929), born in Radom and deceased in Kraków, was a leading figure in Polish Symbolism. He trained at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, notably under Jan Matejko,…
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N° 27 Jerzy Kossak Documented profile
Jerzy Kossak (1886–1955) belonged to a family of Polish painters. The son of Wojciech and grandson of Juliusz, he continued a realist tradition. His artistic proximity to his father…
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N° 28 Alfred Aberdam Documented profile
The career of Alfred Aberdam, presented as Polish, links several centres of training and artistic activity, from Munich and Krakow to Paris, where he takes part in the formation of t…
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N° 29 Alice Halicka Documented profile
Alice Halicka settled in Paris in 1912 and began exhibiting at the Salons. Her painting includes a Cubist phase, exemplified by Composition cubiste avec violon et partition musicale,…
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N° 30 Arthur Kolnik Documented profile
Born in Stanislavov in 1890, Arthur Kolnik studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and settled in Paris in 1931. His work as an illustrator includes Sous le chapeau haut de for…
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N° 31 Bolesław Biegas Documented profile
Sphinxes, cosmic visions and unsettling figures run through the imagination of Boleslas Biegas (1877–1954). Born Bolesław Biegalski in Poland, this Symbolist artist practised sculptu…
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N° 32 Magdalena Abakanowicz Documented profile
The Polish textile artist and sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz extended weaving beyond the surface: her natural fibres and varied materials gave rise to reliefs and then to sculptural,…
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N° 33 Marcel Słodki Documented profile
Born in Łódź in 1892, Marcel Slodki, also known as Marceli Słodki, studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Living in Zurich during the First World War, he participated in the Dad…
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N° 34 Marek Żuławski Documented profile
Marek Żuławski (1908–1985), a Polish painter and printmaker born in Rome, trained in Warsaw, receiving diplomas in painting and decorative painting in 1933 and 1934. Settling in Lond…
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N° 35 Tamara de Lempicka Documented profile
Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish painter whose portraits helped shape the imagery of Art Deco. In interwar Paris, her language combined Cubist simplification, an interest in fashion a…
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N° 36 Teofil Ociepka Documented profile
Teofil Ociepka, a Polish self-taught painter, was born in Janów in 1891 and died in Bydgoszcz in 1978. Employed in a Silesian mine’s power station, he began painting around 1927. Occ…
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N° 37 Walter Spitzer Documented profile
Walter Spitzer (1927–2021) was a painter, printmaker and sculptor born in Cieszyn, Poland, who settled in France. Deported as a teenager to Blechhammer and subsequently transferred t…
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N° 38 Władysław Jackiewicz Documented profile
Władysław Jackiewicz, born in 1924 and deceased in 2016, was a Polish painter closely associated with Gdańsk. He studied under Artur Nacht-Samborski, graduated in 1952 and became an…
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N° 39 Abraham Neumann Documented profile
The Polish painter Abraham Neumann, born in Sierpc in 1873 and deceased in 1942, developed a body of work whose subjects and techniques reflect a varied practice. After 1911, his pai…
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N° 40 Elisabeth Baumann Documented profile
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was a Danish painter born in Warsaw, trained in Düsseldorf and later active in Rome. She married the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau and pursued an internatio…
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N° 41 Henryk Uziemblo Documented profile
Henryk Uziemblo’s career is marked by continuity between painting, applied arts and the creation of spaces: a co-founder of Polska Sztuka Stosowana in 1901, he advocated bringing tog…
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N° 42 Jan Cybis Documented profile
Jan Cybis was a representative of Polish Colourism. A student of Józef Pankiewicz in Kraków, he helped establish the Paris Committee in 1923 and moved to the French capital the follo…
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N° 43 Jan Sawka Documented profile
Painter, printmaker, graphic designer and stage designer Jan Sawka trained in both fine art and architecture in Wrocław. In Poland, he participated in the counterculture, making post…
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N° 44 Jan Tarasin Documented profile
Jan Tarasin (1929–2009) studied painting with Zbigniew Pronaszko at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts from 1946 to 1951. After 1956 he turned towards non-figurative painting. A member…
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N° 45 Julian Stanczak Documented profile
The American painter and printmaker of Polish origin Julian Stanczak (1928–2017) explored the relationships between colour, light and perception in his work. Born in Poland, he reach…
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N° 46 Juliusz Joniak Documented profile
Juliusz Joniak (1925–2021) was a Polish painter and printmaker born in Lwów, now Lviv. After beginning his artistic education there, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków,…
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N° 47 Leon Weissberg Documented profile
Léon Weissberg (1895–1943) trained in Vienna and Munich before settling in Paris in 1923. He belonged to the milieu of the School of Paris. With Alfred Aberdam, Sigmund Menkès and Jo…
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N° 48 Leopold Gottlieb Documented profile
Léopold Gottlieb began his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied painting from 1896 to 1902 under Jacek Malczewski and Théodor Axentowicz. At the end of th…
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N° 49 Marcin Maciejowski Documented profile
The Polish painter Marcin Maciejowski, born in 1974, first gained international recognition as part of Grupa Ładnie (Pretty Group), alongside students from the Krakow University of T…
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N° 50 Maria Anto Documented profile
Maria Anto was born in Warsaw in 1936 and died in 2007. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in her native city. Her figurative painting combines personal memories with fantastic…
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N° 51 Nathan Grunsweigh Documented profile
Born in Krakow in 1880, Nathan Grunsweigh was a painter associated with the School of Paris. He settled in France before the First World War and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendan…
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N° 52 Pinchas Burstein Documented profile
Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977), known as Maryan S. Maryan, was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland, and died in New York. Following a first solo exhibition in Jerusalem in 1949, he showed his wo…
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N° 53 Teresa Rudowicz Documented profile
Collage appears in several documented works by Teresa Rudowicz, a Polish artist born in Toruń in 1928 and who died in Kraków in 1994, on a range of supports and using various techniq…
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N° 54 Thomas Gleb Documented profile
Thomas Gleb (1912–1991) trained in drawing and painting in Łódź before continuing his artistic explorations in Paris from 1932. He held his first exhibition in his studio there in 19…
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N° 55 Wilhelm Sasnal Documented profile
Born in 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish artist whose practice spans painting, photography, posters, illustration and film. In his paintings, photographic images dr…
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N° 56 Wojciech Sadley Documented profile
Wojciech Sadley, born in Lublin in 1932 and deceased in 2023, was a Polish artist working across painting and textile art. Following musical studies, he trained in interior architect…
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N° 57 Zbigniew Rogalski Documented profile
Born in Dąbrowa Białostocka in 1974, Zbigniew Rogalski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 1999, studying in Jerzy Kałucki’s studio. His practice combines painting,…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026