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Kobro and Strzemiński: Łódź – Warsaw – Paris (1956–1957)

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Luba I.

Ikonotheka

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2016

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vol. 26

137-166

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From December 1956 to December 1957, no fewer than four exhibitions presenting the oeuvre of Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński were organised: the Posthumous Exhibition of Władysław Strzemiński’s and Katarzyna Kobro’s Oeuvre, shown fi rst in Łódź (16 December 1956 – 14 January 1957) and then in Warsaw (18 January – 10 February 1957), and two exhibitions in Paris: 50 ans de peinture abstraite at Galerie Raymond Creuze (9 May – 12 June 1957) and Précurseurs de l’art abstrait en Pologne: Malewicz, Kobro, Strzemiński, Berlewi, Stażewski at Galerie Denise René (22 November 1957 – 10 January 1958). All received a strong response, both in Poland and abroad. Research focused on these exhibitions has brought some surprising results. None of them had been planned until 1956, and only after the events of October 1956 was it possible to show the works of Kobro and Strzemiński in Warsaw in 1957. The exhibition at the Łódź Division of the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions was prepared with exceptional care and is immensely important, as it occasioned the fi rst attempt at preparing a catalogue of both Kobro’s and Strzemiński’s works, of Strzemiński’s biography and a bibliography of texts authored by Strzemiński and Kobro. In addition, it was there that Strzemiński’s treatise Teoria widzenia fi rst came to public attention; it was published only two years later. The exhibition was transferred, quite unexpectedly, to the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions in Warsaw, which was the chief institution involved in exhibiting modern art in Poland; this gave offi cial sanction and a considerable status to the oeuvre of both avant-garde artists. The exhibition entitled Précurseurs de l’art abstrait en Pologne became, paradoxically, the fi rst-ever offi cial exhibition of Polish avant-garde art to be held abroad and organised by a state agency, i.e. the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions, under the aegis of the ambassador of the People’s Republic of Poland in France. It was also the only exhibition in which Kazimierz Malewicz was regarded as a Pole and presented as belonging to the history of art in Poland; the mission initiated by Strzemiński in 1922 was thus completed. The institutions involved in arranging the loans of Malewicz’s works for this exhibition were the Ministry of Culture and Art, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its subordinate Polish embassies in Paris and Moscow. This was the fi rst time that the works of Kazimierz Malewicz were presented in the West, thanks to the efforts and under the aegis of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the period of the post-Stalinist thaw; notably, this happened before their presentation at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (29 December 1957).

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Katarzyna Kobro. A Vision of the Open Sculpture

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Kuczyńska A.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2018

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issue 1

115-124

EN

The paper is on Katarzyna Kobro’s artistic achievements and theoretical writings which present the foreshadowing of a new understanding of the space, articulated later by philosophers. Her and her husband conception of avant-garde sculpture postulates new mechanisms of seeing reality. By eliminating borders between sculpture and space, Kobro initiated a true breakthrough in art. Her achievement should be recognized for its truly pioneering and visionary status. Kobro was one of the first artists who revealed the intimate relation between art and its environment.

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Sala Neoplastyczna: od kobiety ornamentu do kobiety instrumentu

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Lisiewicz M.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

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2010

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vol. 72

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issue 4

445-454

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The objective of this article is to conduct a revision of the meanings attributed in Polish art history to a piece of work regarded as an ‘iconic’ Polish museum piece by Władysław Strzemiński, a leading representative of constructivism, titled Sala Neoplastyczna. The text proposes considering afresh the tangle of evidence relating to the rise of this work, such as the time its creation required, the title its author chose to give it (“Oeuvre néoplastique”) and that artist’s works in the field of theory and practice in the designing of spatial forms. The main axis of the here-contained analysis of Sala Neoplastyczna is above all else the work itself (or rather this design’s reconstruction), and in particular an arrangement in its range of works by the artist’s wife, Katarzyna Kobro, the eminent sculptress.

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Kompozycje przestrzenno-rzeźbiarskie Katarzyny Kobro

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Utkin B.

Ochrona Zabytków

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1972

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issue 3

203-206

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In connection w ith th e fo u r th ie th a n n iv e r s a ry of estab lish in g th e R ev o lu tio n a ry A rtis ts ’ G ro u p “AR” being a t th e same tim e a n n iv e rs a ry of fo u n d in g the fir s t Polish G a lle ry of Modern A rt th e Museum of Arts, Łódź, who is co n tin u in g th e a c tiv itie s once s ta r ted by th e Gallery, h a s u n d e rta k e n a se rie s of re s e a rch an d p o p u la riz in g actions. Among th e o th e r aims of th e se actions h av e also b e en se t th o s e to su p p le m en t th e d a ta a lre a d y possessed a n d to g a th e r as fu ll as possible in fo rm a tio n w ith re g a rd to a c tiv itie s of th e “AR” G ro u p whose m em b e rs a n d fo u n d e rs w e re J a n Brzękowski, K a ta rz y n a Kobro, J u lia n P rz y boś, H e n ry k S ta ż ew sk i and W ład y sław S trz emiń sk i. In his p re s e n t a rtic le th e a u th o r d e a ls w ith re s to ra tio n of th e d e stru c te d d u rin g th e World W a r I I sp a tia l sc u lp tu ra l compositions of th e P o lish 20th c en tu ry a v a n t-g a rd e s c u lp tu re r K a ta rz y n a K obro (1898—1951). It is a well known fa c t th a t a ll h e r compositions Kobro based on th e defin ed n um e ric a l se ts th a t su p plied th e basis fo r h e r s c u lp tu ra l co n cep tio n s. According to h e r own words: “... a ll th e e lem e n ts conta in e d w ith in a scu lp tu re should be su b o rd in a te d to a n um b e r as such, an d th e n an d o n ly th e n the sc u lp tu re can be one w o rth y ...” She ap p lied th e n um b e rs in in te g ra te d compositional lay o u ts an d sy stems as, fo r in stan ce, in h e r co n stru c tiv is t scu lp tu re s, th a t a re kn ow n as th e “3/5/8 R a tio ” an d h av e b e en d escrib ed in th e book title d “The Space Composition”. While s ta rtin g his re s to ra tio n of th e fo u r s c u lp tu ra l compositions th e a u th o r of th e p re s e n t was aw a re of c re a tiv e ten d en c ie s in th e a r t of K a ta rz y n a Kobro. A fte r m ak in g a th o ro u g h a n a lysis o f component p a r ts an d of e n tire compositions he ad v an c ed an a ssum p tio n th a t fo r th e ir p ro p e r re s to ra tio n it is n e c e ssa ry to fin d a new “ n um b e r k e y ”. Only as a re s u lt of time -co n sumin g a ttem p ts an d tr ia ls he w as successful enough to re c o n s tru c t th e up to now u n re v e a led in K o b ro ’s compositions n um e ric a l sets, n am e ly th e a rithm e tic an d g eometric p rog ressions. Thus th e following w o rk s could be re co n s tru c ted : “A Composition of S ym m e try ” (see 111. 1, 2, 3), “The D ualism of C o n tra s ts ”, “The C o n tra s ts of S p a c e ” and “The S ix S h a p e s”. Originally, it we re th e fr e e - s ta n ding sc u lp tu re s ex e cu ted in wood, glass, p la s te r of P a ris, an d metal. All th e re s to ra tio n w o rk s w e re c a rried o u t to o rd e r of Museum of A rts, Łódź.

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A Concise History of Women Originating from the City of Lodz Acting either as Flâneuses or Women Artists, at the Beginning of Modern Era until the End of World War II. An Attempt of Re-interpretation of the Literary and Art History Canon

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Pawłowska A.

West Bohemian Historical Review

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2018

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vol. 8

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issue 2

239-252

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The purpose of this paper is an attempt of re-interpretation of the literary and art history canon in the context of female writers and visual artists living in Lodz. The idea of the flâneur was developed by a German Walter Benjamin in the 1920s and 1930s during Modernism time, when the “surreal” potential of the industrial urban space was intensively explored. The concept has exerted considerable impact on the way how we now interpret 19th and 20th century depictions of the city. I will analyze the meanings of the texts written by Waleria Marrené-Morzkowska (Wsród kakolu 1890), the memoirs of Anna Clare and also the creative output of the female artists from Young Yiddish Group (1918–1921) as well as the sculptures and memoirs of Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951) – the most intriguing female artist connected with Lodz. She was an accomplished sculptor who was under great influence of Constructivism, she strongly rejected individualism, subjectivism and expressionism, and she postulated instead an absolute objectivism of form. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art in Lodz.

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Problemy konserwacji neoplastycznego dzieła sztuki

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Rubczyńska M.

Ochrona Zabytków

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1971

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issue 1

43-49

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In Museum of Arts, Łódź there are two rooms the walls of which iare covered with the painted decorative motifs designed by an outstanding representative of the Polish neoplastic art Władysław Strzemiński and his disciple Bolesław Utkin. In the same rooms are displayed the paintings, sculptures and pieces of furniture supplying an illustration of the aforementioned trend in art. The preservation of painted decorative motifs on walls presents, however, a great deal of difficulties as they represent quite an unusual problem within the scope of the conservator’s usual practice. Since the preservation of perfectly smooth and uniformly shaded surfaces in particular parts of decoration Is an absolute must, the author suggests that in places where it might prove necessary to recover the losses no stippling should be applied ; instead of this the entire surfaces should be covered with colour matching as much as possible that of original work.

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Returns to Kobro: Reconfigurations of the Myth and Figure of a “Great Artist”

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Rejniak-Majewska A.

Rocznik Historii Sztuki

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2022

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issue XLVII

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