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Andrzej Kreutz Majewski w Bibliotece Polskiej w Paryżu

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Kuraś M.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

2012

vol. 61

issue 3-4(243-244)

173-188

Villa dei Misteri. Andrzeja Kreuz Majewskiego biografii część pierwsza

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Koecher-Hensel A.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

2012

vol. 61

issue 1-2(241-242)

223-266

The article is a shortened version of two first chapters of the monograph entitled Od malarstwa i scenografii do teatru autorskiego. Andrzej Kreutz Majewski. Biografia artysty (From Painting and Stage Design to Author’s Theatre. Andrzej Kreutz Majewski. A Biography of the Artist) written thanks to a scholarship received from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Andrzej Majewski, since 1999 using the name Kreutz Majewski, who was the major stage designer of the Wielki Theatre from 1966 to 2005 and passed away on 28 February 2011, was a versatile artist. Having completed more than 200 stage designs, including those to visually grand productions, in collaboration with various directors in Poland and abroad, at the end of the 1970s Majewski came to a point in which he felt ready for his own theatre productions: a production of Pasja wg św. Łukasza (The Passion According to St Lukas) by Krzysztof Penderecki in 1979, and then Król Roger (King Roger) by Karol Szymanowski in 1983 at the Wielki Theatre in Warsaw. First and foremost, however, Majewski was a painter. He debuted as such in 1955 and remained faithful to this form of artistic creation throughout his life. The painting, being an autonomous art, enabled him to express himself in a personal, intimate manner. What he could not express through the fine arts and theatre, he wrote down: scraps of visions, fragments of dreams, memories, reflexions on the books he was reading, artistic experiences, notes on his work on theatre productions. His Notatki malarskie (A Painter’s Notes), written regularly since 1984, were published as Dziennik 1984–2004 (Diary 1984–2004) in 2005. In 1990, a traumatic experience of discovering the truth about his father and unravelling the mystery of his parentage, which led him to add his true family name Kreutz to the previous Majewski surname, inspired him to write a scenario of his own theatre production entitled Narcissimo/Lotczyk. The play is a poetic autobiographical drama of Romantic and surreal character. In her article, Agnieszka Koecher-Hensel recounts and puts in order the facts related to the artist’s birth and sheds light on the causes of the family secrets which caused confusion in his biographical records and documents while making it difficult for him to define his own identity. The article focuses on Majewski’s childhood and early youth in an attempt to understand the sources of the most salient motifs in his art. Born in Brdów in 1934 (not in Warsaw in 1936, official documents notwithstanding), Andrzej Majewski was raised mostly by his grandmother Natalia. In his earliest childhood, he was surrounded by lakes, woods, and music: grandmother Natalia often sang various arias and played the piano, contributing to Majewski’s love of the opera. Those years had left imprinted on his mind the images of boats, kites, birds, wooden buildings, and fences which were later to become so prominent in his art. Then came the Second World War: Majewski spent most of it in Warsaw. He had learned to read from Andersen’s Little Mermaid, among burning buildings, bomb raids, and smoke.

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Andrzej Kreutz Majewski w Bibliotece Polskiej w Paryżu

Villa dei Misteri. Andrzeja Kreuz Majewskiego biografii część pierwsza