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Walter Prochownik

Walter A. Prochownik (1923 - 2000) was active/lived in New York / Poland.  Walter Prochownik is known for Easel and mural optical abstract and portrait painting.

Walter A. Prochownik (American, 1923-2000) artist and teacher primarily known for his optical-abstract "Series" of works that spanned from the mid 1960's to the mid 1990's.

Prochownik completed three large commissioned murals in Buffalo, NY, as well as portraits, landscapes, seascapes, figurative and other abstract works. He worked in many different mediums, each with equal ease, including; pastel, mixed media, oil, acrylic, charcoal and graphite.  He was born in Buffalo in 1923 but within his first year, his family returned to the Bielsko (now Bielsko-Biala) area of Silesia in the south of Poland.  At the age of seventeen, Prochownik took advantage of his American citizenship and returned to Western New York in 1940, leaving his family behind in hopes of avoiding the conflict that followed in Poland after the Nazi occupation began in 1939. His parents managed to get him out on the last boat.

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