«Independent artist and painter. Born 1920 in Pleszew, died 1980 in Warsaw.
Marian Bogusz spent part of World War II as a prisoner of the concentration camp at Mauthausen. This experience did not, however, directly influence his later life. Perhaps this enabled him after 1945 to become one of the most important figures in the Polish arts, both as an independent artist and as someone who spawned many important community and national projects which, although varied, were primarily avant-garde in nature. Bogusz received his training as a painter between 1946 and 1948 at Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Jan Cybis and Jan Sokołowski among others. In 1947 he began to work actively with the Warsaw-based Young Artists and Scientists Club, which was an unusually lively source of intellectual and artistic initiatives whose impact was felt throughout the country. During the Socialist Realist period he withdrew into the background, as did many artists, limiting himself to designing scenery and exhibitions....»

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 «Stanisław Batruch born in November 1935 in Zagórze. Graduated from Liceum Ogólnokształcące (a secondary school) in Sanok and an undergraduate Studium Nauczycielskie in Rzeszów.
   In the years 1960-1966 studied painting in the studio of Professor Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa, called the Grand Lady of the Polish Painting, at the Academy of Fine Arts.
   Simultaneously to his artistic career he started teaching, first at Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych (a secondary school of plastic arts) in Kraków, then at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he made it gradually through all the levels of the academic career to the nomination to the title of Professor, given to him in 1993 by the President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Wałęsa.»(art-decorum.pl ).Stanislaw Batruch died on September 16, 2015

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«Mikołaj Smoczyński was a painter, photographer, draughtsman, performance artist, and author of objects and installations. He was born on 22nd March, 1955, in Łódź, and died in Lublin on 2nd January, 2009.
He graduated from the State Higher School of Plastic Arts in Łódź (1974-75) and the Institute of Art Education at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (1975-79, diploma from Jan Popek's workshop). In 1984-85, he worked as a fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in Ryszard Winiarski's workshop. In 1979, he started teaching at the Institute of Art Education of his alma mater. Mikołaj Smoczyński was known for creating site-specific installations and black and white photographs resembling abstract paintings. In his works, he focused on the specifics of the material he was applying as well as on matters relating to place and space. The essence of his art lay in capturing an individual's experience in reference to reality in flux.
Smoczyński's early painting works were inspired by American abstractionists, predominantly Franz Kline. He also felt a strong affinity with such styles as minimalism and Arte Povera.
 He only painted for a short period of time, after graduating from university. In the early 1980s, Smoczyński began producing objects that went past the definition of painting, but could not yet be described as installations. Installation art appeared later on in his practice, as an offshoot of his painting style, which had been elaborated into three-dimensional forms.
The artist decided to start documenting these altered states of space, considering photography to be the most appropriate medium for doing so. For a period of time, Smoczyński created installations in his studio, solely for the purpose of photographing them, such as in the series The Secret Performance. He carried out these kinds of actions during Martial Law. Being able to concentrate on a personal, internal experience allowed him to cut himself off from the unacceptable reality outside of his working space...»(culture.pl )

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 Beauty in motion 30 x 40 " deep edge canvas, blues,
reds, greens, purples, yellows, white, oil, ink,
powders, this one has lots of color.
Palette knife lots of activity and motion.
Available for purchase $ 1,000.00 I will pay to ship and insure.

Abstract, gauche paints, on 8 x 10"
board, browns, blues, yellows,
striking.  Available $50.00

Abstract, gauche paints, palette knife,
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Look Into The Dark 24 x 32" Original Painting, Palette Knife,
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Enchanted Forest 24 x 24" deep edge canvas..
Palette Knife, oil and metallic pigment powder
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Abstract, gauche paint, orange, green, reds,
palette knife, 8 x 10" on paper.
unframed. available 50.00

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Mogens Erik Schack Bale (April 1, 1921 in Copenhagen — 20 November 1988 in Asmindrup) was Danish painter.
Mogens Balle was the youngest of the Danish artists in the COBRA, a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.

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 «Max is early in his life inspired by the female body, already as a 10 year old he makes sculptures in wood of women torsos.
Starts to work on technical school in the decoration department in 1929. Starts on Art School in 1931.
Exhibits his first pieces of art in 1935, some flower stilleben, but with a little touch of sureallism. In 1942 he starts the group Minotaur together with a.o. Hulten and Osterlin. In 1945 Jorn visits Malmoe, as he after the war is eager to seek for artists and inspiration after 5 years in the occupied Denmark, he meets Minotaur, and the artists in these circles.
In 1946 Svanberg creates the expression 'Imaginism' and most of the group Minotaur follows this direction.
In 1949 Jorn talks to Imaginisterne about Cobra, and they find that there are a lot of common interests, so Imaginisterne becomes the Swedish branch of Cobra, as Host was the Danish craddle for Cobra.
Svanberg participates in a few exhibitions, but gets after Cobra more and more inspired by the surrealism, which this lithograph shows, he makes a litograph for Cobra nr. 5. shown below.
During the 50's and 60's his pictures get more surrealistic, and very erotic, illustrated among others in the exhibition in Malmoe Kunsthal in the summer of 1979, the catalog is very fine documentation on Svanberg. „

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«Fritz Koenig (20 June 1924 – 22 February 2017) was a German sculptor best known outside his native country for «The Sphere,» which once stood in the plaza between the two World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan but which now stands, its damage deliberately left unrepaired, in Battery Park as a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. His oeuvre includes other works, including other memorials.Born in Würzburg, Koenig's family moved to the Bavarian community of Landshut when he was six. In the years after World War II he studied art at the Kunstakademie München (Munich School of Art), graduating in 1952. Nine years later he moved to Ganslberg, a farming community outside Landshut where he lived and worked on a horse farm. In 1964 he was appointed professor of art at the Technical University of Munich.He died in Landshut on 22 February 2017, aged 92»

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«Karen Lillards journey as a painter can be enclosed within the category of Survivor Art, Intuitive, abstract, abstract expressionism, and message art. Her inspiration is derived from color primarily combined with her own internal intuitive mechanism, and self analysis. Karen is an individual who seeks depth and intensity in all things. Her works are abstract, expressive and meaningful. Her favorite materials are oil and ink. The surfaces she uses include glass, canvas and walls. She started painting five years ago; after a lifelong career outside of art. Karen has had no formal training and has developed her style strictly by doing. Her pieces almost always are created entirely with palette knife. She chooses her palette and then begins to move the paint There is no plan, no drawing, simply whatever is inside revealing itself. Karens message art creations incorporate quotes into her paintings that have significant meaning and are provocative and/or inspirational. Her work is quite simply an intimate look into the soul.....her soul. „

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