Wojciech Fangor

Wojciech Fangor (* November 15, 1922 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, printmaker, sculptor and creator of the poster art.

Following the private study of painting from 1940 to 1944 at Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and Tadeusz Pruszkowski he received in 1946 the external diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His first works were heavily influenced by socialist realism as "Korean mother " or " Lenin in Poronin ". 1953 to 1961 he was a lecturer at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, and thanks to the easing of the political climate after the Polish October, he freed himself from the imposed socialist realism and turned to abstract art. He was one of the founders of the Polish school of poster art. In 1958 he exhibited together with Stanisław Zamecznik ( 1909-1971 ) in the salon of " Nowa Kultura " the first Environment in Poland, "the study of an area " ( study przestrzeni ).

In 1961 he left Poland, lived from 1964 to 1965 in West Berlin, from 1965 to 1966 in England, and since 1966 in the United States. While staying abroad, he taught at many art schools, including at Bath School of Art and Design in Corsham, Wiltshire (England), Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey ( USA), Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts ) (United States ). As the only Polish artist in 1970 he showed his works at a separate exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

In 1999, he returned home to Poland. In 2008 he was to me the Gloria Artis medal for Cultural Merit in gold. In 2011 he was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta. His works are highly valued on the art auctions at home and abroad. He lives in the village Błędów in powiat Grójecki, about 60 km south of Warsaw.