Kapists or KPists (Polish: ''Kapiści'', from KP, the Polish acronym for the Paris Committee), also known as the Colourists, were a group of
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
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
Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866 – 4 July 1940) was a Polish Impressionism, impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher. He spent much of his career in France.
Biography
Pankiewicz was born on 29 November 1866 in Lublin. From 1884 to 1 ...
and were under the strong influence of the French
Post-Impressionists
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction aga ...
.
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'' (). Apart from Pankiewicz, among the best-known Kapists were
Jan Cybis
Jan Cybis (16 February 1897 – 13 December 1972) was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher.
Biography
Cybis was born in Fröbel (now Wróblin, Opole Voivodeship, Poland) and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, s ...
,
Józef Czapski
Józef Czapski (3 April 1896 – 12 January 1993) was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the '' Kapist'' movement, which was heavily influenced by Céza ...
, Józef Jarema, Artur Nacht-Samborski,
Eugeniusz Geppert
```
Eugeniusz Geppert (born September 4, 1890 in L'viv, died January 13, 1979 in Wrocław) was a Polish people, Polish painter associated with the Kapists, Colourist movement, organizer of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.
...
, Piotr Potworowski,
Hanna Rudzka and
Zygmunt Waliszewski.
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
The Maison Moos, later called the Galerie Moos, was an art gallery and auction house founded in 1906 in Geneva by the art dealer Max Moos. The gallery closed in 1976.''Le marché de l'art en Suisse du XIXe siècle à nos jours'' / éd. par Paul-A ...
in Geneva.
References
Polish artist groups and collectives
{{art-movement-stub