Ink on paper.
Dimensions in frame: 57x42 cm (37x22 cm)
Aleksander Kobzdej (1920 - 1972) Polish architect, painter, draughtsman, also set designer, poster designer and illustrator, from 1951 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In autumn 1939 he began studying architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, at the same time he began painting under the tutelage of Władysław Lam. In 1944 he was deported to forced labor in Vienna, from where he escaped to Yugoslavia. In 1945, he returned to the country. After the war, he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch to take a position as an assistant to Prof. Wladyslaw Lam at the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdansk University of Technology in late 1945. While working, he graduated from the polytechnic with an engineering diploma. From 1947 to 1951 he was a lecturer at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Sopot. He then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he taught until his death. He received his diploma in 1955, the title of associate professor in 1958, was dean of the Faculty of Painting many times, and in the 1960s led the Department of Wall Painting (later called the Department of Problems of Painting in Architecture). In the early days, he painted paintings close to socialist realism, the most famous of which is the diptych Give a Brick (1950) and Bricklayers (1950), but later he moved away from figural representations and began to create abstract works that crossed the boundary of painting and were combined with the current of matter painting. These include Szeroka szczelina między violetami (1968), and Szczelina w zieleni (1967); the canvas in them is divided into two parts, between which runs a horizontal gap filled with relief. He is co-author of the building complex of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Warsaw, 1 Bonifraterska Street (1956-1959).
