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Lubomir Tomaszewski
Holocaust Memorial Polish Sculpture Burnt Wood Metal Judaica Jewish Memorial Art

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This is a large sculpture in 2 parts it lifts off the base. Born in 1923, alumnus of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Student of the Warsaw University of Technology, is an extraordinary artist, searching for his own artistic way. Ambitious, he aims at creating art nobody else has ever created. He is a representative of experimental realism, a versatile sculptor and painter in love with music, nature and women beauty. He inherited his remarkable humanistic and musical talent from his mother, whereas from his father he inherited his technical and engineering talent. Thanks to this exceptional mixture of genes, Tomaszewski combines an engineer’s approach to nature and human beings with the ability to uncover the human soul. He knew he was an artist from the very beginning. He learned to paint before he could even talk: he made his first realistic drawing at the age of two and a half. The complicated course of events led him to settle down in New York region, the city became his new home, where he could find his way to artistic freedom and fame. He has over 150 individual and group exhibitions around the world to his credit. His works decorate the private studies and houses of Lawrence Rockefeller’s family and of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter. Lubomir Tomaszewski creates using three different kinds of media: sculpture, paintings “painted with fire” and porcelain. As a sculptor, he uses ready fragments given by nature: stones or rocks, pieces of wood and bark, and combines them with metal or glass to create unique representations of animals, figures or forest spirits. As a painter, instead of a brush, he uses a torch. The technique of painting with fire and smoke offers not only amazing expression possibilities: it makes it possible to achieve the effect of lightness and dynamism, but also an amazing force of expression. No paint can produce such results. What makes the paintings so captivating is their ethereality and power that has a strong impact on the viewers and touches their emotions. Tomaszewski has been mastering this technique for over 20 years. While creating porcelain figurines, Professor Tomaszewski approaches the subject with great passion, as he treats them as small sculptures. He works on his own unique style and believes that by designing small-scale sculptures he gives people something beautiful, with modern shapes, something that increases the aesthetic level of the society. His adventure with porcelain figures started in the 1950s in the Institute of Industrial Design, where he used to work. Lubomir Tomaszewski excellent education, his talent and his extraordinary abilities to observe nature and contemporary art led him to found an international artistic movement: he is the spiritual father and the leader of the Emotionalists, a group established in 1994, formed of painters, sculptors, designers, photographers, dancers and musicians. The New York Times called him “a motion sculptor”. By his works Tomaszewski proves that popular, not necessarily highly abstract, art can bring great joy to many people, but can also evoke other emotions, such as anxiety or fear. Thanks to the fact that he depicts and evokes emotions that are shared by many people, his works are found in private collections, corporations, museums and galleries around the world, and the number of admirers of his sculptures and paintings is constantly growing. LubomirTomaszewski’s works are included in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw; the National Museum in Kraków; the Warsaw Rising Museum (Warsaw); the National Museum in Wrocław; Halle Museum (Germany); Robert Marston, INC.; Marvin Gliman; Lighting Services INC.; Lawrence Rockefeller and the Rockefeller family; the Ziselman family (Caracas, Venezuela); Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States; T. Komine of Kyowa Bank (Tokyo, Japan), and others. Awards: 1948 National Award for sculpture ‘Portrait of a Woman’ 1955 First Prize, competition for sculptures for the square surrounding the Palace of Art and Science, Warsaw, Poland. 1956 Third Prize for ‘The Monument of Freedom, Cracow, Poland 1958 Distinction award for sculpture ‘Sport’ 1959 Distinction in a two level competition for ‘Monument of Warsaw Heroes’ 1964 Distinction for ‘Nina‘ (coffee set) 1964 Distinction for ‘Dorota‘ (coffee set) 1964 Golden Cross for achievement in industrial design 1983 First Prize in Contemporary Art Exhibit, Slavic Culture Week 1984 Award for Achievement in Sculpture, Perspective Magazine 1988 Third Prize O.A.F., Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1991 Best in Show O.A.F., Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1993 Biennial Award, Museum N.E.C.C.A., CT 1995 First Prize O.A.F., Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1997 Third Prize O.A.F., Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1999 Third Prize O.A.F., Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 2000 Second Prize at New Canaan Society for the Arts, CT 2001 Press Award Saumur, France 2002 Touring Exhibition France and Germany 2003 Second Prize “Spectrum” New Canaan Society of Arts CT 2004 Second Prize Polish Art Festival Doylestown PA 2005 First Prize “ Spectrum” New Canaan Society for the Arts 2006 People`s Choice Award National Sculpture Society 2007 Curators Choice Award “Spectrum” New Canaan Society for the Arts 2007 Second Prize OAF. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT2008 – First Prize in “ Spectrum” New Canaan Society for the Arts for ‘Mythical Giant’ 2010 American Society of Contemporary Artists, New York, NY, award for “Joy of Dance” 2011 Second Award ‚Illusion’ w New Canaan Society for the Arts, New Canaan 2012 Honorable Mention New Canaan Society for the Arts for painting ‘It’s Passing’ 2013 First prize for ‘Flight over the Stage’ from New Canaan Society for the Art 2014 First prize for ‘Music of the Forest’ from New Canaan Society for the Art 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award, Bridgeport University , USA
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    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 12 in (30.48 cm)
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    Surfside, FL
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    1stDibs: LU38210806522

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