Kajetan Sosnowski

Kajetan Sosnowski was born on March 28, 1913 in Vilnius, died on November 6, 1987. He is a leading avant-garde artist of the interwar period. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1934-39). He created paintings, drawings and sculptures.

After the war, the artist was active in the cultural environment. He founded art schools in Siedlce and Łódź, and in the years 1947-51 he collaborated with the weekly "Kuźnica", for which he created illustrations, designed graphics and wrote texts. Sosnowski was also a co-organizer of the Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg. In 1969 he received the prestigious Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award. In order to promote avant-garde art in his hometown Chełmno Lubelskie, in 1972 the artist founded Galeria 72.

Sosnowski created his first series of works in 1955-56. They referred to the concept of metaphorical art formulated in Grupa 55, of which he was the founder. At the time, he was interested in ambiguity. With time, he began to use abstract shapes to then create images of an almost one-color plane in an intense, saturated tone.