Kazimierz Zielenkiewicz (dit Caziel)
1906 (Sosnowiec) / 1988 (Somerset)
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Kazimierz Zielenkiewicz was born in Poland in 1906, before emigrating to Russia. On his return to his native country in the 1930s, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which was steeped in the influence of French Post-Impressionism, where he discovered the works of Cézanne. However, it was upon his arrival in Paris in 1937 that he truly began his career as an artist. A few years after Lanskoy, he joined the École de Paris and built his artistic identity on his French influences, his Polish heritage and the folklore of his culture and traditions. Within the group, of which he became one of the driving forces, he developed compositions structured around fragments of lines and colours.
Caziel held his first solo exhibition in 1947, where he met Picasso. Influenced by Picasso’s practice, Caziel’s works bridge Cubism and abstraction. His quest to break free from figurative art was shaped by the Second World War and further complicated by his friendship with the artist. It was in Aix-en-Provence, where he took refuge in the 1940s, that he reached the culmination of his abstract exploration, notably by deepening his study of Cézanne’s paintings. He eventually continued his artistic practice in England, where he died in 1988. Caziel is now celebrated across Europe as a leading figure in 20th-century abstract art, and his works are held at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Lodz Museum in Warsaw, and the Vatican Museum in Rome.
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Kazimierz Zielenkiewicz was born in Poland in 1906, before emigrating to Russia. On his return to his native country in the 1930s, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which was steeped in the influence of French Post-Impressionism, where he discovered the works of Cézanne. However, it was upon his arrival in Paris in 1937 that he truly began his career as an artist. A few years after Lanskoy, he joined the École de Paris and built his artistic identity on his French influences, his Polish heritage and the folklore of his culture and traditions. Within the group, of which he became one of the driving forces, he developed compositions structured around fragments of lines and colours.
Caziel held his first solo exhibition in 1947, where he met Picasso. Influenced by Picasso’s practice, Caziel’s works bridge Cubism and abstraction. His quest to break free from figurative art was shaped by the Second World War and further complicated by his friendship with the artist. It was in Aix-en-Provence, where he took refuge in the 1940s, that he reached the culmination of his abstract exploration, notably by deepening his study of Cézanne’s paintings. He eventually continued his artistic practice in England, where he died in 1988. Caziel is now celebrated across Europe as a leading figure in 20th-century abstract art, and his works are held at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Lodz Museum in Warsaw, and the Vatican Museum in Rome.