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Tadeus Kantor

Tadeus Kantor (1915 - 1990) was active/lived in Poland.  Tadeus Kantor is known for Abstract painting, assemblage, set design.

Tadeusz Kantor (6 April 1915 - 8 December 1990) was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad.

Born in Wielopole Skrzynskie, Galicia (then in Austria-Hungary), Kantor graduated from the Cracow Academy in 1939. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Theatre, and served as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as a director of experimental theatre in Kraków from 1942 to 1944. After the war, he became known for his avant-garde work in stage design including designs for Saint Joan (1956) and Measure for Measure (1956). Specific examples of such changes to standard theatre were stages that extended out into the audience, and the use of mannequins as real-life actors.

Disenchanted with the growing institutionalization of avant-garde, in 1955 he with a group of visual artists formed a new theatre ense   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4440 characters.]  Artist bio

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"One night Velazquez's Infanta came into my room", 1988

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"Monsieur Exotique", 1982

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"Someday Napoleon's soldier from Goya's image came into my room", 1988

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"Emballages, objects, personages nr 5", 1968

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"Monsieur Incroyable", 1980

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Emballages, objets, personnages n. 5 , 1968

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