Jan Cybis (16 February 1897 - 13 December 1972) was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher.

Biography

Cybis was born in Fröbel (now Wróblin, Opole Voivodeship,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) and studied at the

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Pol ...

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

, settling in that city from 1934. The German Expressionist

Otto Mueller Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement. Life and work Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County), Kreis Landeshut, Silesia. Betwe ...

was his mentor. He studied under

Józef Pankiewicz Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866, in Lublin – 4 July 1940, in La Ciotat) was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France. Biography From 1884 to 1885, he studied at the School of Fine Ar ...

among others, developing a reputation for a post-impressionist style using rich, saturated color influenced by the French. In the 1930s Cybis was among the most prominent of the

Kapists Kapists or KPists (Polish: ''Kapiści'', from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colourists, were a group of Polish painters of the 1930s who dominated the Polish artistic landscape of the epoch. Contrary to Polish ...

or Paris Committee, a significant group of Polish painters of the time. His wife

Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1897-1988) was a Polish artist and teacher. Biography Rudzka-Cybisowa was born on 27 June 1897 in Mława, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she was taught by . In 1923 Rudzka-Cybisowa becam ...

(1897-1988) was a notable painter in her own right and also active as a Kapist. Among other recognitions, Cybis was awarded the Polish communist government's

Order of the Banner of Work The Order of the Banner of Labor ( pl, Order Sztandaru Pracy) was a governmental award in Poland during the 20th-century era of the Polish People's Republic, a former Marxist-Leninist state. The order was established by the Sejm (a chamber of th ...

in 1949 and the

Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland The Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (Polish: ''Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej'') is a former Polish civil state award established by the Council of State on 23 May 1954 to recognize services to the state. It was created to mark ...

in 1955, although during the Socialist Realism period Cybis was prevented from teaching for ideological reasons. Among his notable students was Tadeusz Dominik. Jan Cybis grób

Cybis is buried at the

Powązki Military Cemetery Powązki Military Cemetery (; pl, Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach) is an old military cemetery located in the Żoliborz district, western part of Warsaw, Poland. The cemetery is often confused with the older Powązki Cemetery, known colloquiall ...

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

. His memoirs were published in 1980.

Jan Cybis Award

Since 1973 the

Association of Polish Artists and Designers The Association of Polish Artists and Designers (, ZPAP) is an official association of professional artists in Poland, representing more than 8,500 learned artists working in the field of visual arts, including: painting, sculpture, graphic design, ...

(Polish acronym ''ZPAP'') has issued a prestigious annual Jan Cybis Award to Polish visual artists for creative achievement. Its recipients include: * 1973 Tadeusz Dominik * 1974 Krzysztof Bucki * 1975 Jan Dziędziora * 1976 Witold Damasiewicz * 1977 Jacek Sempoliński * 1978

Jan Berdyszak Jan Berdyszak (15 June 1934 –18 September 2014) was a Polish artist. From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Sculpture Department of the State College of Fine Arts in Poznań (now Fine Arts Academy), where he eventually returned as a lecturer. He ...

* 1979 Rajmund Ziemski * 1980

Stefan Gierowski Stefan Gierowski (21 May 1925 – 14 August 2022) was a Polish painter and an avant garde artist of post-war Poland. For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions. He abandoned rep ...

* 1981 Barbara Jonscher * 1982 no award * 1983 Jacek Sienicki * 1984 Jerzy Tchórzewski * 1985 Jan Lebenstein * 1986 Jerzy Panek * 1987 Jan Tarasin * 1988

Jerzy Nowosielski Jerzy Nowosielski (January 7, 1923 – February 21, 2011) was a Kraków-born Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer, and illustrator. He was well known for his religious compositions ( wall paintings, iconostases, polychromies) in th ...

* 1989 Stanisław Fijałkowski * 1990

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* 1991 Łukasz Korolkiewicz * 1992

Zbigniew Makowski Zbigniew Makowski (31 January 1930 – 19 August 2019) was a Polish painter. Zbigniew Makowski was born in 1930. Three of his works are in the permanent collection in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Makowski died in August 2019, aged 89. ...

* 1993 Henryk Błachnio * 1994 Jan Dobkowski * 1995 Ryszard Winiarski * 1996

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* 1997 Jerzy Mierzejewski * 1998 Leon Tarasewicz * 1999 Tomasz Ciecierski * 2000 Teresa Pągowska * 2001 Jadwiga Maziarska * 2002 Jacek Waltoś * 2003 Aleksandra Jachtoma * 2004 Jarosław Modzelewski * 2005 Jerzy Kałucki * 2006 Andrzej Dłużniewski * 2007 Roman Owidzki * 2008 Tomasz Tatarczyk * 2009 Robert Maciejuk * 2010 Ryszard Grzyb

References

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