„Nowa sztuka” w Łodzi w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym
"New art" in Lodz in the interwar period

Author(s): Aneta Pawłowska
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Lodz; visual arts; avant-garde; interwar; "a.r." group
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the circumstances of the formation of modernist art in a large industrial city like Łódź in the interwar period. The factory character of the multinational, dynamically developing city influenced its culture and art. Through the fact that the Jewish diaspora (the expressionist Jung Idysz group) and the abstractionists (Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro, Karol Hiller, Stefan Wegner, Aniela Menkesowa) participated in the artistic movement in large numbers, the city of the "cultural desert" grew to become an important centre of modern art. Important activities supporting the development of modern art in the city of Lodz included the creation of the International Collection of Modern Art in the Lodz Museum and publications from the so-called "a.r. Library" (related to the artistic practice of the "a.r." group).

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