Marian Czapla, ECCE HOMO, 1977-1990

180,0 x 90,0cm - oil, canvas

sign. p.g.: czapla

Sign. on back ¶.g.: heron | > ECCE HOMO < | 180 x 90 | OLEJ - 1977 - '90, above UP [arrow mark].

On g. loom strip: m. heron. 180 x 90 OLEJ 1977.



Exhibited painting:

- Painting and Drawing by Marian Czapla, BWA, Legnica 1991/1992;

- Marian Czapla. Ecce homo, BWA, Kielce 1996/1997;

- Marian Czapla. On the 30th anniversary of his creative work, National Museum Kielce 2002;

- Marian Czapla. On the 30th anniversary of creative work, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in Królikarnia, branch of MNW, Warsaw 2002;

- Marian Czapla. Painting, Nicolaus Copernicus Museum, Bell Tower on Cathedral Hill, Frombork 2007;

- Marian Czapla - painting, Dom Artysty Plastyka ZPAP, Warsaw 2011;

- Though the time of creation has passed for us, the thought in paintings remains, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw XI 2021 - II 2022.



Reproduced image:

- Marian Czapla. On the 30th anniversary of his creative work [exhibition catalog at the National Museum in Kielce], Kielce-Warsaw 2002, il. 18 b, p. 60, il. 18, p. 143 (as Study of a Man, left part of diptych).

Marian Czapla (Gacki, Kielce, Poland, July 28, 1946 - Warsaw, January 12, 2016) studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1966 to 1972, earning his diploma in the studio of Prof. Stefan Gierowski. In 1972 he began teaching at his alma mater. Since 1990 he was a professor, and ran his own painting studio. In 1974-1979 he was a member of the group "Symplex S4", which was formed by a group of young graduates of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, interested in the possibility of continuing the tradition of Polish colorism on the one hand, the Unism of Władysław Strzemiński on the other. Initially, he created abstract compositions built from colorful, sweeping streaks and spots. From the late 1970s, figuration became predominant in his paintings. A prominent theme in Czapla's work was religious themes and references. These interests remained current in his art in the 1980s, when he combined them with current themes (a series dedicated to the miners of "Wujka"). In the works of the 1990s (the series "Fall", "Ecce Homo" and others), the artist painted monumental figures with strong tectonics, further emphasized by strong colors and contours, framed by dynamic movements and twists of the body. Usually placed on flat backgrounds of uniform color, in a conventional space, they seem to struggle with the limiting frame of the painting. In 2002, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Marian Czapla's creative work, the National Museum in Kielce prepared an exhibition of his works, accompanied by a scholarly catalog.