Kapists or KPists (Polish: ''Kapiści'', from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colourists, were a group of

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painters of the 1930s who dominated the Polish artistic landscape of the epoch. Contrary to Polish romanticist traditions, the Kapists underlined the independence of art from any historical tradition, symbolism or influences of literature and history. They were formed around

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 ...

and were under strong influence of the French Post-Impressionists. The name of the movement was derived from the full name of the so-called ''Paris Committee'', or ''Paris Committee of Relief for Students Leaving for Artistic Studies in France'' ( pl, Komitet Paryskiej Pomocy dla Wyjeżdżających Studentów na Studia Malarskie do Francji). Apart from Pankiewicz, among the best-known Kapists were

Jan Cybis 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) and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, set ...

, Józef Czapski, Józef Jarema, Artur Nacht-Samborski,

Eugeniusz Geppert Eugeniusz Geppert (born September 4, 1890 in L'viv, died January 13, 1979 in Wrocław) – Polish painter associated with the Colourist movement, organizer of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Received formal training at th ...

, Piotr Potworowski, Hanna Rudzka and

Zygmunt Waliszewski Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897–1936) was a Polish painter, a member of the Kapist movement. Biography Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg to the Polish family of an engineer. In 1907 his parents moved to Tbilisi where Waliszewski spent h ...

. In 1930 the Kapists held an exhibition at the

Galerie Zak Galerie Zak was an art gallery that was founded in Paris, France, in 1928 and specialised in modern European and South American art until its closure in the late 1960s. The gallery was notable for hosting the first solo exhibition by Vassily Kandin ...

in Paris and in 1931 another exhibit at the

Galerie Moos The Maison Moos, later called the Galerie Moos, was an art gallery and auction house founded in 1906 in Geneva by the art dealer Max Moos. The gallery closed in 1976.''Le marché de l'art en Suisse du XIXe siècle à nos jours'' / éd. par Paul-An ...

in Geneva.

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