ROMAN NOWOTARSKI

Painting

     The polish artist was born in 1932 in the Hucul area (now Ukraine). In 1960, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Presently, he is a professor at the academy where he teaches drawing and painting at the Graphics Department in Katowice. 

     The artist actively participates in exhibitions and competitions organised in Poland and abroad. He has received many awards for his work, among others, he was a prize-winner at the “Impressions of Poland” National Competition organised by the Myaucki Polish-Japanese Foundation in 1995. His paintings are exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Krakow as well as in museums in Katowice, Bytom, Bielsko, Zabrze and in private collections all over Europe, USA and Japan. 

He has presented his paintings at exhibitions in Basel, Bratislava, Berlin, Istanbul, Paris, London, Washington and Tokyo. 

     Here is a quotation from one of Poland’s greatest painters, Tadeusz Brzozowski, referring to Roman Nowotarski: “His art has always attracted me almost magnetically. The obsessive vision of a landscape devoid of people, a landscape of workers district in a factory town, created rather in the XIX century, embedded in deep, nostalgic colours, enclosed by an almost geometric, simplified drawing is authentically personal. The formal means used by my colleague Nowotarski are of such a class that his vision, truly touching, raises deeper reflections, affecting perhaps existential realms of life. It is an incredibly poetic art”.

Calendarium 2006