Title: "† MICHAEL KANTOR"
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Notes: Obituary of Tadeusz Kantor, and at the same time an art print and poster.
- Tadeusz Kantor (6.04.1915 Wielopole Skrzyńskie pow. Ropczyce-Sędziszów - 8.12.1990 Krakow) outstanding avant-garde artist, painter, draughtsman, theater reformer, stage designer and theater director, art theoretician, creator of happenings, author of artistic manifestos, associated with Krakow. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Cracow in 1939. In 1942 he founded the Underground Independent Theater, after the war in 1946 co-founder of the Group of Young Visual Artists (since 1957 reactivated as Krakow Group II), professor of painting at the Higher School of Visual Arts until 1949, in 1955 he founded the famous avant-garde Cricot 2 Theater together with Maria Jarema and Kazimierz Mikulski, since 1965 he realized a number of happenings and artistic actions. The artist's funeral took place on December 14, 1990, the procession went from Cricoteka to Rakowicki Cemetery.
The obituary refers to a prop in the set design in T. Kantor's famous performance "The Dead Class" from 1975 and the obituary of Józef Wgrzdągiel used there (an authentic character, a colleague of T. Kantor)
The Polish Neo-Avantgarde - Polish Neo-Avantgarde (JK/4)
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Item in nice condition, very slight damage to margins and corners
