Aleksander Kobzdej
Aleksander Kobzdej (1920–1972) was a Polish painter. He was born in, what was then,
Social Realist
group, and for being the creator of unique Polish versions of "matter" painting.
Kobzdej began studying architecture in 1939 at
Kraków Academy of Fine Arts
.
Kobzdej started off as a
Socialist Realism
in the early later 1940s. Beginning in 1950 he was an active participant in official arts reviews, including the annual Polish National Visual Arts Exhibitions organized in Warsaw by the Ministry of Culture and Art. Here he presented his most famous painting to date "Pass me a Brick." Slowly though Kobdzej began to stray away from Socialist Realist iconography and he moved toward exotic depictions and more narrative pieces, mainly influenced by his travels to Vietnam and China.
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