Tadeusz Dominik (14 January 1928 – 20 May 2014) was a Polish
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
,
draftsman and art professor.
Dominik was born in
Szymanów near
Góra Kalwaria
Góra Kalwaria (; "Calvary Mountain", yi, גער, ''Ger'') is a town on the Vistula River in the Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is situated approximately southeast of Warsaw and has a population of around 12,109 (as of 2019). ...
. He studied painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and received his degree in the painting studio of Prof.
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 ...
in 1953. He taught at his alma mater from 1951 until his death in 2014. From 1958 until 1959 Dominik resided in Paris thanks to a French government scholarship. During the period of 1961 until 1962 he created work in the United States as the scholar of the
Ford Foundation. Dominik died in
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 ...
on May 20, 2014, at the age of 85.
Awards
* 1964 - Festiwal International d'art. Contemporain, Monte Carlo
* 1973 - Jan Cybis Prize, Warsaw
* 2010 - The
Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, Gdansk
References
External links
* Tadeusz Dominik. Painting in culture.p
Tadeusz Dominik at Art Gallery Katarzyna Napiórkowska in Poland
20th-century Polish painters
20th-century Polish male artists
21st-century Polish painters
21st-century male artists
Polish draughtsmen
1928 births
2014 deaths
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni
Polish male painters
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