Władysław Hasior (Polish pronunciation: , May 14, 1928 – July 14, 1999) was one of the leading Polish contemporary

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s connected with the

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region. He was also a

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and theatre

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Biography

Władysław Hasior was born in

Nowy Sącz Nowy Sącz (; hu, Újszandec; yi, Tzanz, צאַנז; sk, Nový Sonč; german: Neu-Sandez) is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County as a separate administrative unit. It has ...

on May 14, 1928. From 1947-1952, he studied under Professor Antoni Kenar at the State Secondary School of Visual Art Techniques in

Zakopane Zakopane ( Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been ...

. In 1952 he started his studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He graduated from the Academy in 1958. From 1959-60, he stayed in Paris as a holder of a scholarship of the French Ministry Culture and studied under Ossip Zadkine. His first individual exhibition was in 1961 at the Jewish Theater in

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. Since then his works have been displayed at over seventy individual exhibitions in Poland and Europe. In 1968 Hasior had returned to his first school and became a teacher there until 1968. Hasior’s art meant to provoke and shock the beholder. He continuously experimented with forms, techniques and materials by creating spatial compositions, assemblages and collages. He also authored many unconventional monuments and plein air sculptures, both in Poland and abroad. Since 1984 artist focused on the continuous arrangement of the authors Gallery. Władysław Hasior died on July 14, 1999 in

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. He is buried at the

Cemetery of the Meritorious at Pęksowy Brzyzek.

Hasior Museum in Zakopane

Gallery devoted to Hasior's work has existed since 1984 and is situated in the interior of the ‘deck-chair rental’ by the ‘Warszawianka’ Hotel, a building that was built prior to

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when

was an antituberculosis resort and bed rest in the open air was a common form of treatment. Officially, Hasior’s Gallery is a branch of the Tatra Museum, which the artist enriched with a "dowry" of around one hundred of his works. They constituted the bases for the permanent exhibition made available to the visitors on the ground floor of the building. This is the exhibition which the host of gallery continuously developed and altered, building some kind of a total work, a unique installation of his own exhibits, he created a magical space imbued with music, light, and turned unreal with reflection of huge mirrors.

Education

* 1947–1952, High school of Art Techniques in Zakopane * 1952–1958, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Works

* ''Niobe'' (1961) * series of ''Banners'' (1965–1975) * ''Golgota'' (1971) * ''Dark landscape'' (1974) * ''Embroidery of Character'' (1974) * ''Interrogation of Angel'' (1980)

Monuments

* ''For the rescuers'' in

(1959) * ''Organ'' on Snozka pass near Czorsztyn (1966) * ''Monument to the executed hostages from Nowy Sącz'' in Wroclaw (1966) * ''Burned Pieta'' near

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(1972) * ''Fire Birds” in

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(1975) * ''Fire Birds” in Koszalin (1977)

References

Bibliography

* Anda Rottenberg, Teresa Jabłońska, Marek Pabis, Maciej Buszewicz, Magdalena Iwińska, ''Władysław Hasior'', Olszanica 2004, publisher Bosz, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasior, Wladyslaw 1928 births 1999 deaths Modern sculptors 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni 20th-century Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors Polish male painters Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw