Władysław Strzemiński
Władysław Strzemiński was a Polish avant-garde painter of international renown.
In 1920 he married Katarzyna Kobro.
In 1922 he moved to Wilno, and in the following year supported Vytautas Kairiūkštis in creating the first avant-garde art exhibition in what is now the territory of Lithuania.
In November 1923 he moved to Warsaw, where with Henryk Berlewi he founded the constructivist group Blok.
During the 1920s he formulated his theory of Unism. His Unistic paintings inspired the unistic musical compositions of the Polish composer Zygmunt Krauze. He is an author of a revolutionary book titled "The theory of vision." He was co creator of unique avant-garde art collection in Łódź gathered thanks to the enthusiasm of members of the “a.r.” group as Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stażewski and Julian Przyboś and Jan Brzękowski.
In postwar Łódź he was an instructor at the Higher School of Plastic Arts and Design.Neoplastic Room in Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. where one of his students was Halina Ołomucki, survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. His Neoplastic Room was installed in the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź in 1948 but was removed in 1950 as it failed to fit in with the socialist realism aesthetic imposed by Włodzimierz Sokorski, the minister of culture of the Polish United Workers' Party.
His works have been exhibited in such museums around the world as Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofia, Moderna Museet Malmö and Whitechapel Gallery.
He is the subject of Afterimage, the final film by Andrzej Wajda.
