24 February 1929 –
21 February 2005) was a renowned
Polish painter,
photographer, and
fantasy artist. He was born in the town of
Sanok, in southern
Poland. After studying
architecture in
Kraków, he returned to Sanok in 1955. Subsequent to this education, he spent several years as a
construction site supervisor, which he hated. At that time, he became interested in artistic photography and
photomontage,
sculpture and painting. He made his sculptures of
plaster,
metal and
wire. His photography had several themes that would also appear in his future paintings, presenting wrinkled faces, landscapes and objects with a very bumpy texture, which he attempted to emphasize (especially by manipulating
lights and
shadows). His photography also depicted disturbing images, such as a mutilated baby doll with its face torn off, portraits of people without faces or with their faces wrapped in bandages.
