Boleslaw Cybis
Bolesław Cybis (* 1895 in Massandra, Ukraine, † 1957 in Trenton, New Jersey ) was a Polish- American painter, sculptor and ceramist.
Life
Boleslaw Cybis was in Lithuania as the son of an important - born architect and grew up in Vilnius and St. Petersburg - active above all in Russia. He studied at the Art Academy in Kharkov. In 1915 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1921, he fled from the political upheavals after Constantine Opel, where he lived with the artists Constantin Alajalov and Pavel Tchelitchev and worked. He financed his living by public portrait drawings, theater poster painting, wall painting in nightclubs and stage decorations. His first big job was the preparation of a large-format billboard for Nestlé chocolate. In 1923 he returned to Warsaw, where he attended the Warsaw Academy of Art under Tadeusz Pruszkowski. After graduating Cybis was appointed a teacher at this school. He traveled through Europe, studied the painting techniques of the old masters know and appreciate. In 1926 he married Maria Tym, a student of the Academy. Cybis was one of the founders of the artists group " Bractwa Sw. Łukasza ".
Painting
For his paintings, murals and sculptures Cybis received international recognition. They were exhibited in Paris, Geneva, Munich, Frankfurt, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bucharest and Vienna. From 1926 to 1930 he painted mainly rural scenes and people that are in the style of medieval painting. From the 1930s his work was also shown in the United States. The Studio Magazine described his pictures in April 1934 as a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci. In 1932 he lived in Tripoli, where he also experimentally used cement in his paintings. In the next few years his work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, in museums in Chicago and Dayton, as well as on the international art exhibitions in the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Albright -Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo were presented. 1934 his paintings were shown at the Venice Biennale. From 1934 to 1937 he created with Jan Zamoyski more frescoes ( " Bolesław the Brave wytyczający Granice Polski na Odrze "). In 1937 he was one of the designers of the Polish Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. For his ceiling painting of the pavilion, he received a Grand Prix.
1939 traveled Cybis and his wife in the United States to the New York World 's Fair run there by the City Council New York commissioned murals in the Hall of Honour ( "Hall of Honor " ) of 1939. Cybis created two frescoes: Polish fighters of the American Revolution ( Poles Fighting for American Independence ) and industrial district and Gdynia ( " Central Industrial District and Gdynia "). In the following years, the couple toured the United States and portrayed Indians. Two images of this group were the 1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon donated by the Polish government.
Many of his paintings are in museum collections in Poland, among others, in the National Museum in Warsaw, Szczecin and Gdansk as well as in regional museums in Toruń, Bydgoszcz and Lublin.
Porcelain Art
Due to the outbreak of the Second World War, the spouses Cybis decided to apply for U.S. citizenship. Cybis turned to in the wake of porcelain art. The couple set up in 1940, the " Cybis - Studio " in Steinway Mansion in New York's Astoria is a. After a change of residence to Trenton in New Jersey Cybis developed porcelain processing techniques, which were derived from his studies of the old masters in Europe. Cybis worked hard on perfecting his skills and quickly became an outstanding porcelain artist. His porcelain works have been included in permanent collections of museums. Today, the company produces Cybis Porcelain in Trenton.