Jan Cybis

Jan Cybis studied at Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Breslau and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Training under Otto Mueller and Józef Pankiewicz is recorded. Henryk Kobyliński and Tadeusz Dominiku are recorded as having studied under Jan Cybis. The recorded working language is Polish. The field of work recorded is painting and art criticism. Places of work recorded in the authority are Warsaw and Kraków. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw. Work by Jan Cybis is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw and National Museum in Kraków. Distinctions recorded are Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland, Work Flag Order, 2nd class and Gold Cross of Merit.

Cybis was born in Fröbel (later Wróblin, Opole Voivodeship, Poland) and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he had moved in 1934. The German Expressionist Otto Mueller was his mentor. He studied under Józef Pankiewicz among others, developing a reputation for a post-impressionist style using rich, saturated color influenced by the French. In the 1930s Cybis was among the most prominent of the Kapists or Paris Committee, a significant group of Polish painters of the time. His wife Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1897–1988) was also a Kapist painter. Cybis was awarded the Polish communist government's Order of the Banner of Work in 1949 and the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland in 1955, during the Socialist Realism period when Cybis was prevented from teaching for ideological reasons. Among his students was Tadeusz Dominik. • Illustration — Cybis's gravesite, Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw Cybis was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw. His memoirs were published in 1980.