About artist:



Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Sanok in 1929. He studied at The Faculty of Architecture of The Cracow University of Technology and graduated in 1952. He first worked as a builder but also did photography, drawings and relief carving. He participated in exhibitions organised by the Union of Polish Artistic Photographers. Since the late 1950s he has been chiefly a painter and draughtsman. Having moved to Warsaw in 1977, from 1985 until the early 1990s he was associated with the Parisian art dealer Piotr Dmochowski, whose gallery held the exclusive rights to Beksiński's productions. Since 1958 the artist has had about 50 oneman shows at home and abroad, for example in Sanok, Warsaw, Cracow, Poznań, Florence, Paris, Cologne, Osaka, Metz, Dusseldorf, etc. He has also been widely present at group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
An excellent draughtsman and a very meticulous painter, Beksiński is preoccupied with combining fantasy and eschatology. This catastrophic trait defines Beksiński's chracteristic style, which is marked by a mannerism in colour that emphasises its dramatic composition in both figural paintings and landscapes. He creates very personal art, which stirs extreme reactions, from staunch enthusiasm to fierce criticism.