Leszek SOBOCKI, "Leda of Na³êczów"

50x60, oil on canvas, 2015

(Born 1934 in Częstochowa)

From 1953 to 1956 he studied at the Propaganda Graphics Department in Katowice, from 1956 to 1959 at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (diploma in Waclaw Taranczewski's studio), and from 1959 to 1960 at the Directing Department of the State Higher School of Theater and Film in Lodz. In 1965, together with the Cracow painters Maciej Bieniasz, Zbylut Grzywacz and Jacek Waltos, he founded the WPROST group. Leszek Sobocki took part in 19 exhibitions of the group between 1966 and 1986, and was a participant in the Independent Culture Movement. He lives and works in Cracow.

His works are in the collections of, among others: Moderna Kunst Museet (Stockholm); Kupferstich/Kabinet (Dresden); Museum of Modern Art (Skopje); Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Vienna); Museum of Modern Art (Lodz); national museums in Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Kielce; museums in Bydgoszcz, Szczecin, Tarnow, Radom, Torun; Silesian Museum in Katowice and Bytom; Collegium Maius UJ (Krakow).

Author of more than 20 solo exhibitions, including Milan, Stockholm, Oslo, Krakow and Warsaw, and participant in about 200 collective exhibitions at home and abroad, including: Romanticism and Romanticism in Polish Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Poles Own Portrait, Artist's Thought on the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Cyprian Norwid, Polonia, Images of Death, 100 Years of Zacheta.