Wojciech fangor biography of william

Wojciech Fangor was born on November 15, 1922 in Warsaw. During WWII he studied privately with the renown painters Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski.

He graduated in 1946 from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) where he later taught from 1953 till 1961.

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His main medium was painting, but he also worked with drawing, graphics, sculpture and public commissions, making his debut in 1949 with an exhibition of cubist landscapes and portraits.

He gained popularity during the Social-Realistc period creating iconic works such as “Postacie” (“Figures”) (1950), “Matka Koreanka” (“Korean Mother”) (1951). Fangor was also one of the founders of the celebrated Polish Poster School.

The period of ideological and artistic reassessment resulted in Fangor’s groundbraking work “Studium Przestrzeni” (“Study of Space”)