Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania [Editor]; Małkiewicz, Barbara [Editor]; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie [Editor]; Gołubiew, Zofia [Editor]; Blak, Halina [Editor]: Modern Polish painting: the catalogue of collections (Band 3): Polish painting after the year 1945 (Cracow, 2005)

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DUTKA I DUTIEWICZ

Leszek DUTKA SK
Jaworzno 1921
In the years 1944-1955 he studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (diploma under Hanna
Rudzka-Cybisowa in 1955) and at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow Polytechnic (diploma
under Wlodzimierz Gruszczynski).
He is a painter fascinated by expressionist abstractionism and the painting of matter; he is also
a drawer, sculptor, ceramist, architect, poet, and art critic.
177.
Tired, 1956
Oil on canvas, 87 * 132
Signed and dated bottom right: Leszek
Dufka I 1956
Inv. no MNK II-b-1662 (310 170)
Taken over from the CBWA in 1960

178.
Fiight 1967
Oil on canvas, palette knife, 81 * 55
Signed and dated bottom right: Leszek
Dutka 67; on the reverse the inscription:
Leszek Dutka 1967
Inv. no MNK II-b-2042 (313 437)
Purchased from the author in 1969


Jozef Edward DUTKtEWfCZ SK
Cracow 1903 - Olkusz 1968
In the period 1921-1931 he studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in the ateliers of Jozef
Mehoffer and Felicjan Szczpsny Kowarski, and in the Parisian Branch of the Cracovian Academy
under Jozef Pankiewicz; he also attended art history at the Jagiellonian University. He was
a member of the Association of Polish Plastic Artists "Pryzmat", a co-founder (in 1948) and editor
of the periodical "Ochrona Zabytkow".
He was a painter, art historian and conservator (mainly of murals).
179.
Interior of a Studio, [ca 1950]
Oil on canvas, 87.5 * 72.5
Unsigned
Inv. no MNK II-b-3105 (321 595)
Purchased from the artist's wife, Jadwiga,
in 1984