Zbigniew DÅ‚ubak

Zbigniew Andrzej Dlubak ( born April 26, 1921 in Radomsko; † August 21, 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter, photographer, and art theorist.

Life and work

In the course of AB action against the Polish intelligentsia in 1940 Zbigniew Dlubak was arrested and deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he survived the Nazi period. In 1945 Zbigniew Dlubak returned to Poland, took part in the reconstruction of the Polish art scene and worked with various art galleries and artist groups.

Zbigniew Dłubaks was one of the founders of the group 55, a community of avant-garde Polish artists of the fifties. From 1953 to 1972, Zbigniew Dlubak chief editor of the monthly magazine Fotografia, 1966-1975 lecturer at the State University of Film, Television and Theatre and the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. From 1975 to 1982 he organized the Warsaw seminar, the meeting of a group of young, on the theory of art interested people.

Zbigniew Dlubak lived in Meudon near Paris for the duration of martial law in Poland in the 1980s.

Among the most important works of Zbigniew Dłubaks include the picture cycles The war, motherhood and systems as well as the photo series existences, asymmetries and gestures.