Kazimierz Podsadecki, Pustkowie

Oil, cardboard, 10 x 28.5 cm,
signed l.d.: Podsadecki and p.d.: 15.9[1]962.

Kazimierz PODSADECKI (1904-1970)
Painter, photographer, illustrator. Studied art at the Industrial School in Cracow. He was friends with Peiper and Strzeminski, collaborated with the avant-garde magazine "Zwrotnica", was a member of the a. r. and Praesens group. In the interwar period he practiced abstract painting and experimented with photography. After the arrest of the artist in 1941, most of his works from 1926-1939 were destroyed by the Gestapo. After the war he was one of the organizers of ZPAP in Szczecin. He was an artist sensitive to avant-garde currents, in his early work he was influenced by cubism, his post-war colorful landscapes and still lifes refer to post-cubist achievements.