Kapists or KPists (Polish: ''Kapiści'', from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colourists, were a group of Polish painters of the 1930s who dominated the Polish artistic landscape of the epoch. Contrary to Polish romanticist traditions, the Kapists underlined the independence of art from any historical tradition, symbolism or influences of literature and history. They were formed around Józef Pankiewicz and were under strong influence of the French Post-Impressionists. The name of the movement was derived from the full name of the so-called ''Paris Committee'', or ''Paris Committee of Relief for Students Leaving for Artistic Studies in France'' ( pl, Komitet Paryskiej Pomocy dla Wyjeżdżających Studentów na Studia Malarskie do Francji). Apart from Pankiewicz, among the best-known Kapists were Jan Cybis, Józef Czapski, Józef Jarema, Artur Nacht-Samborski,

Eugeniusz Geppert Eugeniusz Geppert (born September 4, 1890 in L'viv, died January 13, 1979 in Wrocław) – Polish painter associated with the Colourist movement, organizer of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Received formal training at th ...

, Piotr Potworowski, Hanna Rudzka and

Zygmunt Waliszewski Zygmunt Waliszewski (1897–1936) was a Polish painter, a member of the Kapist movement. Biography Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg to the Polish family of an engineer. In 1907 his parents moved to Tbilisi where Waliszewski spent h ...

. In 1930 the Kapists held an exhibition at the

Galerie Zak Galerie Zak was an art gallery that was founded in Paris, France, in 1928 and specialised in modern European and South American art until its closure in the late 1960s. The gallery was notable for hosting the first solo exhibition by Vassily Kandin ...

in Paris and in 1931 another exhibit at the Galerie Moos in Geneva.

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