Władysław Lam “The Long Market in Gdańsk"

Oil on canvas, signed lower center “W. Lam”.

Framed: 70x85 cm (61x76 cm)

Władysław Lam (Konjic 1893 - 1984 Gdańsk) – Polish painter, graphic and art critic. In 1912 he started studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the studios of Teodor Axentowicz and Józef Mehoffer. In 1925 he traveled to France (Paris and the south coast). He painted architecture views and landscapes. After his second trip to France in 1929 he moved to Lviv. He started to paint portraits and figurative compositions. In 1934 he was a manager of the Drawing Department in Lviv Polytechnic. After the occupation of Lviv the teaching profession was forbidden. In 1945, thanks to the intercession of Stanisław Łukasiewicz, after being deported from Lviv, he came to Gdańsk. He was part of the organizing group of the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. His task was to organize the Department of Drawing and Sculpture. He was the founder of the painters and sculptors union, which organized the first painting exhibition at the Gdańsk University of Technology. Despite his retirement, he continued pedagogical work and painted, among others from 1956 he experimented with allusive abstraction.He was the author and co-author of many books, essays in magazines, his comments were placed in exhibition catalogs. After 1945, he traveled around Europe, he was invited to Italy, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and West Germany. Throughout the post-war period, he created and participated in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He was also the creator of lithographs and woodcuts, he developed his own technique of creating a monograph.