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"Karol Hiller - A New View"
Poznan, National Museum, February 15 - March 21, 2004
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The presentation was organized in celebration of the 111th anniversary of the artist's birth. This retrospective exhibition will include paintings, lino-etchings, lithographs, heliographic compositions, drawings, bookplates, book covers, as well as photographs and documents associated with the life of the artist, deriving from the private collections of family members.

An exhibition composed of works from the collection of the Museum of Art in Lodz, supplemented with works from branches of the National Museum in Warsaw and Poznan, as well as the Wladyslaw Broniewski Museum in Warsaw, and the Museum of the History of the City of Lodz. The presentation was organized in celebration of the 111th anniversary of the artist's birth. This retrospective exhibition will include paintings, lino-etchings, lithographs, heliographic compositions, drawings, bookplates, book covers, as well as photographs and documents associated with the life of the artist, deriving from the private collections of family members.

Karol Hiller was born in Lodz in 1891. He was an overt opponent of Nazism and because of this stance was executed in 1939. Hiller was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev, where in addition to learning the secrets of traditional painting and the art of icon creation, he was also exposed to the Russian and Ukrainian avant-gardes. Fascinated by what he saw as the Cubist-like beauty of factories in the city of Lodz, he proceeded to create a modern and highly expressive visual myth of this "city of labor."
Among other works, he created a series of monumental lino-etchings depicting the people and architecture of the industrial city. Towards the end of the 1920s, he turned his attention toward abstract art, creating vibrant canvasses that possess highly varying textures and color schemes, exhibit an abundance of geometric and biological forms, and seem to be of cosmic origin. He went on to experiment with the new graphic art technique of heliography. In spite of creating for a relatively brief period, he was indubitably one of the most talented and interesting artists of the two decades between the world wars. An artist with an unusual imagination, Hiller also exhibited an immense mastery of skills and a visual mind that was conscious of its times. Hiller's output continues to elicit immense interest and his works have been included in international exhibitions of avant-garde art in Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the United States, and most recently in Belgium during the EUROPALIA 2001 Festival.
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