Henryk Stażewski

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Henryk Stażewski was a pioneer of the Avant-garde movement in Poland, a proponent of Constructivism and Geometric Abstraction, a designer of theatre sets and interior design schemes, as well as poster art. During the interwar period, he was associated with the activities of numerous avant-garde groups, notably the Formists, Blok, and Praesens. Together with Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński, he co-founded the International Collection of Modern Art, which was presented to the Art Museum in Lodz. Stażewski’s works have been part of many exhibitions and collections around the world, among them the Foksal Gallery, Warsaw; the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Venice Biennale; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute, Chicago; the Royal Academy, London; the Museum of Art, Lodz; Tate Modern, London; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Dallas Museum of Art; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 1972 he was awarded the Gottfried von Herder Prize by the University of Vienna.