Portrait of Tadeusz Pruszkowski, 1942

Janówek

Signature / Inscription Recto, bottom right: W Fangor 42

Provenance Museum of Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, no. MASP 8061, n.d.

Exhibitions

• *Muzeum Nadwiślańskie - Kamienica Celejowska, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 2016–2017 (E.2016.14)
• The Museum of Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland, 2022 (E.2022.14)
• *The National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland, 2022–2023 (E.2022.9)

Literature

• Dabrowski, Magdalena ed. Wojciech Fangor: Color and Space. Milano: Skira, 2018.
• Zmorzyński, Wojciech. Fangor : Beyond Painting. Exhibition Catalogue. Gdańsk: Muzeum Narodowe, 2022.

Critical Comments Tadeusz Pruszkowski (1888 - 1942) was a painter, art critic and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was a friend of the Fangor family and at the request of Wanda Fangorowa, in 1934, he recommended his student Tadeusz Kozłowski as the first teacher of the future painter. From 1940, he himself led Fangor's painting studies, which consisted of weekly correction sessions in a flat on Malczewskiego Street in Warsaw. These were interrupted by the tragic death of Pruszkowski, who was executed by the German occupiers in 1942.