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Painter in oil, born in Warsaw, Poland. After initial architectural studies at Warsaw Polytechnical School, transferred to the Painting School in 1921, then studied at Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, 1923–4. Travelled extensively in Europe and Scandinavia for about 20 years, then in Scotland and London, where he arrived in 1943. From 1946 for about a dozen years he visited Wookey Hole, Somerset, initially and then regularly Sancreed, Cornwall. In London he had met Jankel Adler, and now in Cornwall he mingled with St Ives painters. In the 1950s he made a number of trips to the continent, in 1950 touring Spain with the sculptor Kenneth Armitage. Armitage was one of his colleagues when he taught at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, 1949–58, others being William Scott, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost and Adrian Heath.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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