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 São Paulo (1959) and Gottfried Herder award (1966).

Works in collections i.a.: National Museum in Warsaw, Kra- kow, 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 Mo- derne w São Paulo, Rockefeller Collection, G.David Thompson Collection, Sammlung Beitz in Essen.

Selected exhibitions: 1st National Exhibition of Fine Arts, National Museum, Warsaw (1950); Venice Biennale (1954); Biennale in São 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).