Henryk Stażewski (1894-1988)

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Name (English)
Henryk Stażewski
Short name
Henryk Stażewski
Year of birth
1894
Year of death
1988
Short Description
Henryk Stażewski (pronounced: /stəʒɛfskiː/ STA-zev-skee; 9 January 1894 – 10 June 1988) was a Polish painter, writer, and visual artist. Stażewski´s career spanned seven decades and he is considered a pivotal figure in the history of constructivism and geometric abstraction in Poland. He was one of the few prominent Polish avant-garde artists of the interwar period who had remained active and influential in the second half of the 20th century.

Stażewski rose to prominence as a co-founder of Blok, Praesens, and a.r. group, three interwar artist collectives which spearheaded the development of Polish Constructivist art. During the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled extensively and became acquainted with other European avant-garde artists, including Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, and Albert Gleizes. In 1939, Stażewski´s career was hindered by the outbreak of World War II and most of his work was destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Poland. After the end of the war in 1945, he returned to painting but was faced with the imposition of Stalinism and Socialist Realism.
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