Marian Czapla
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Marian Czapla is a Polish painter and graphic artist.
Born on July 28, 1946 in Gacki
near Szydłów, Czapla graduated from the School of Plastic Arts in Kielce
. He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
and was a pupil of Stefan Gierowski
(painting), Halina Chrostowska, and Joseph Pakulski (graphics).
Czapla co-founded the art group Simplex S4, of which he was a member from 1974 to 1979. Since 1972 he has been a professor of painting at his former university. His works have been displayed at many solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. The National Museum in Kielce held an exhibition from May 24 to July 28, 2002 which featured 155 pieces from three decades of Czapla's work.
He currently lives in Warsaw, and since 1979 he has been an Honorary Citizen of the municipality of Szydłów.
Born on July 28, 1946 in Gacki
Gacki, Staszów County
Gacki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szydłów, within Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland...
near Szydłów, Czapla graduated from the School of Plastic Arts in Kielce
Kielce
Kielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...
. He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw is a public university of visual and applied arts located in the Polish capital. The Academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw University in 1812. As a separate institution it was founded in 1844 during the Partitions of Poland...
and was a pupil of Stefan Gierowski
Stefan Gierowski
Stefan Gierowski is a Polish painter and one of the foremost avant garde artists of post-war Poland.For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions. He abandoned representational and realist painting midway through the 1950s and devoted...
(painting), Halina Chrostowska, and Joseph Pakulski (graphics).
Czapla co-founded the art group Simplex S4, of which he was a member from 1974 to 1979. Since 1972 he has been a professor of painting at his former university. His works have been displayed at many solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. The National Museum in Kielce held an exhibition from May 24 to July 28, 2002 which featured 155 pieces from three decades of Czapla's work.
He currently lives in Warsaw, and since 1979 he has been an Honorary Citizen of the municipality of Szydłów.
Sources
External links
- Czapla's official site
- ArtKontakt.pl
- Kompas Sztuki
- Polish Pieta held at Cornell University'sCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
Johnson Museum of Art