Wojciech Fangor
- Birth Date:
- 15.11.1922
- Death date:
- 25.10.2015
- Burial date:
- 03.11.2015
- Length of life:
- 92
- Days since birth:
- 37060
- Years since birth:
- 101
- Days since death:
- 3113
- Years since death:
- 8
- Extra names:
- Wojciech Fangor
- Categories:
- Graphic Artist, Painter, Sculptor
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Wojciech Fangor (November 15, 1922 in Warsaw - Oktober 25, 2015 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and co-creator of the Polish School of Posters.
After privately studying art with Felicjan Kowarski and Tadeusz Pruszkowski, he obtained his diploma in 1946 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
He started in the Socialist realism manner, creating the “Korean Mother” (now in the National Museum, Warsaw collection).
Between 1953 and 1961, he was employed as assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
After the Polish October, the so-called “Gomułka's thaw” following Joseph Stalin's death, he turned away from socialist realism as a style. He became one of founders of the Polish School of Posters.
In 1961, he left Poland and settled in West Berlin between 1964–1965, in England between 1965–1966, then from 1966 in the United States, where he lectured on art at art schools. He returned to Poland in 1999.
In 1970 he had, as the sole Polish artist, an individual exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
He lives now in Błędów, Grójec County, a village near Warsaw.
He designed murals on the station walls of the second line of Warsaw Underground in 2014.
Source: wikipedia.org
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