Władysław Strzemiński (Belarusian: Уладыслаў Страмінскі; 21 November 1893, Minsk – 26 December 1952, Łódź) was a Polish broadminded painter of international renown.
In 1920 he married Katarzyna Kobro.
In 1922 he moved to Wilno (now Vilnius), and in the with year supported Vytautas Kairiūkštis in creating the first innovative art exhibition in what is now the territory of Lithuania (then below Polish rule).
In November 1923 he moved to Warsaw, where taking into account Henryk Berlewi he founded the constructivist intervention Blok.
During the 1920s he formulated his theory of Unism (Unizm in Polish). His Unistic paintings inspired the unistic musical compositions of the Polish composer Zygmunt Krauze. He is an author of a revolutionary LP titled “The theory of vision.” He was co creator of unique advanced art addition in Łódź gathered thanks to the readiness of members of the “a.r.” group as Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stażewski (the artists) and Julian Przyboś and Jan Brzękowski (the poets).
In postwar Łódź he was an theoretical 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 futile to fit in later the socialist veracity aesthetic imposed by Włodzimierz Sokorski, the minister of culture of the Polish United Workers’ Party.
His works have been exhibited in such museums going on for the world as Centre Pompidou,Museo Reina Sofia,Moderna Museet Malmö and Whitechapel Gallery.
He is the subject of Afterimage (2016), the unmodified film by Andrzej Wajda.
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