Tadeusz Dominik (14 January 1928 – 20 May 2014) was a Polish

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, draftsman and art professor. Dominik was born in Szymanów near

Góra Kalwaria Góra Kalwaria (; "Calvary Mountain", yi, גער, ''Ger'') is a town on the Vistula River in the Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is situated approximately southeast of Warsaw and has a population of around 12,109 (as of 2019). ...

. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and received his degree in the painting studio of Prof.

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, set ...

in 1953. He taught at his alma mater from 1951 until his death in 2014. From 1958 until 1959 Dominik resided in Paris thanks to a French government scholarship. During the period of 1961 until 1962 he created work in the United States as the scholar of the Ford Foundation. Dominik died in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

on May 20, 2014, at the age of 85.

Awards

* 1964 - Festiwal International d'art. Contemporain, Monte Carlo * 1973 - Jan Cybis Prize, Warsaw * 2010 - The Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, Gdansk

References

External links

* Tadeusz Dominik. Painting in culture.p

Tadeusz Dominik at Art Gallery Katarzyna Napiórkowska in Poland
20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists 21st-century Polish painters 21st-century male artists Polish draughtsmen 1928 births 2014 deaths Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni Polish male painters {{Poland-artist-stub