Marek Wlodarski (alias Henryk Streng) (1903 Lviv - 1960 Warsaw), Contrabassist, 1926

Origin
DESA Unicum, January 2001
private collection, Germany

Literature
Marek Włodarski (Henryk Streng) 1903-1960, National Museum in Warsaw. Monographic exhibition, December 1981-January 1982, cat. no. III/18

Biography
Studied at the Lviv Free Academy of Fine Arts and the State Industrial School under Kazimierz Sichulski and at the Paris Académie Moderne under Fernand Léger. He was fascinated by naïve provincial art, fair folk and funfair; he often used the motif of the man-mannequin. In 1930 he joined the ARTES group (members included: Jerzy Janisch, Mieczysław Wysocki, Aleksander Krzywobłocki, Ludwik Lille, Otto Hahn, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Aleksander Riemer). After the war, he taught at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He took part in the work of the Warsaw Club of Young Artists and Scientists, and participated in the Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow (1948). His postwar work is an interesting counterpart to French and Italian lyrical abstraction.