Dimensions: 29.8 x 23.9 cm
Provenance
legacy of Józef Głogowski
private collection, Warsaw
Biography
Known mainly as a photographer of Witkacy's experimental activities. His own pictorial work is just being discovered. An oil mining engineer by profession, he was the manager of the oil mines in Boryslaw, Lviv province. He was involved in photography as an amateur, but their application went beyond the amateur use of the medium in creating a family album. In the second half of the 1920s, he moved to Zakopane, where he created portraits and scenes depicting his family and those close to him. His contacts with artists (including the sculptor August Zamoyski and his wife, the dancer Rita Sacchetto, and Witkacy) played a large role in his work, influenced by which he created portraits containing elements of staging and experimentation. From 1931, he made expressive portraits of Witkacy. There was a series of mime theater shots in which Witkacy experimented with his own image, as well as documentation of Witkacy's improvised scenes, in which the Glogowski family was sometimes included. In Glogowski's work, the outgoing, pictorial concept of photography and the new, modernist one, based on the specificity of the medium, meet. Major exhibitions: "Time of Daughters" Asymmetry Gallery, Warsaw (2009); "Witkacy and Others. From the collection of Stefan Okołowicz and Ewa Franczak" Wilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw (2011).
