Zdzislaw ruszkowski biography of michael
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Zdzislaw Ruszkowski
Catalogue Introduction
This is not a conventional introduction to an art catalogue. When I started writing, all manner of thoughts and memories from my youth flooded into my mind, all those childhood and teenage experiences that form the character, set patterns and influence adult behavior. I decided to describe my early life as a prelude to becoming a collector. My background, my parents and the profound influence Ruszkowski had on me especially in the view of the poor relationship I had with my father. So, in this introduction I bare my soul.
I was born into a dysfunctional family on the 1st December 1946. To my parents' great surprise, my sister appeared first and I appeared two cigarettes later. My mother and father met in 1944 during the war. My mother worked for the BBC under Herbert Lom who became a well-known actor. My father was on leave from active service. He was serving in "Combined Operations" and held the rank of Major. They shared a simil
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Polish Art Corner
Życiorys Zdzisława Ruszkowskiego jest dobrze nakreślowny przez dom aukcyjny. Dodatkowy splendor z posiadania tej pracy to proweniencja prowadząca do lordowskiej rodziny Croftów. Można w ten sposób otrzeć się o archeologię oraz o Hollywood ale o tym trzeba poczytać.
Lot 1095. Zdzislaw Ruszkowski [1907-1990] – View over Charmouth Bay,:- signed bottom right, oil on canvas, 44 x 34cm. * Provenance. The Leicester Galleries, Cork St, London, where bought bygd The Rt. Hon Lord Croft. * Biography Ruszkowski was born in 1907 in Tomaszow, Poland and grew-up influenced by his father, also a painter. Later influences were Van Gogh, Cezanne and the Old Masters such as Titian and Rembrandt. In 1935 Ruszkowski went to Paris, where he became closer to the work of Cezanne and the countryside around Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. In 1939 he visited Versailles, but the threat of war in europe affected his enthusiasm to paint and in 1940 he left France for England
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Zdzislaw Henryk RUSZKOWSKI
Zdzislaw Henryk RUSZKOWSKI
The son of an artist, Ruszkowski was born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, on 5 February 1907. He studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (1924-9) and continued his studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1930 to 1932. On the death of his father, a small inheritance enabled him to travel to Paris in 1935. When World War II broke out he joined the Polish Army in France. When France was invaded, he escaped to Spain and made his way to Scotland where, in 1941, he re-joined the army.
In 1944 he moved to London, holding his first one-man exhibition there in 1948. The next year, he rented a Newlyn studio from a friend for two summers. Paintings from this period are held in the Simonow Collection (France) and include Cornish Landscape (1949), House in Newlyn (1950), Penzance Beach (1950) and Three Girls against the Wind (Newlyn, Cornwall) (1952).
Ruszkowski died in London, aged 84, on 18 May 1991.