1920 - 1972 A Polish painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer. A Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Decorated with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1954) and the Gold Cross of Merit (1952). A winner of the competition at the 5th Biennale in Sao Paulo (1959) and Gottfried Herder award (1966).

Works in collection: National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Wrocław, Poznań, Szczecin, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Guggenheim Musuem in New York, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Musee d'Art Moderne w Sao Paulo, Rockefeller Collection, G. David Thompson Collection, Sammlung Beitz in Essen.

Selected exhibitions: 1 st National Exhibition of Fine Arts, National Museum, Warsaw (1950); Venice Biennale (1954); Biennale in S?o Paulo (1959); 15 Polish Painters, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1961); Documenta, Kassel (1964); retrospective exhibition, National Musuem in Poznań, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (1969); Year 1955, Królikarnia, Warsaw (2005)