Author Archives: dutkiewiczarchive

About dutkiewiczarchive

The archive of Dr Adam Jan Dutkiewicz, artist, writer, art historian, researcher, editor, publisher, book designer, proof reader, catalogue designer, exhibition curator and specialist in South Australian art and enthusiast for post-war architecture and design

100th Anniversary Exhibition – Part Two

Posted on January 2, 2019

2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the Polish-born artist Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz’s birth. A commemorative exhibition of 40 works was mounted at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in May-June 2018. Although a large exhibition, it was thought more could be shown – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz

Posted on June 30, 2018

Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz was a painter, sculptor, writer, actor, stage designer and theatre director. After arriving in Adelaide in 1950 he was first noticed for his set designs for plays. He made a strong impact on art in South Australia with his forceful expressionist paintings and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

100th Anniversary Exhibition

Posted on December 13, 2017

Opened on 5 May 2018 at 2.30 pm. Opening speaker: Dr Christine Nicholls, Senior Lecturer, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. An exhibition of work by the late Polish-Australian artist Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz (1918-1999). http://theconversation.com/wlads-worlds-polish-resistance-fighter-slavic-space-age-modernist-legendary-australian-artist-96192 Wlad was trained in Poland … Continue reading →

Image | Posted on December 13, 2017 | Leave a comment

SJ Ostoja-Kotkowski

Posted on June 13, 2017

Some time ago I photographed the above work, an abstract in oil by the late artist Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski (1927-1994)  in a  private collection in Adelaide.  Since then, a number of new things by the artist have come into my in-tray … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

A Visual History – volume two

Posted on April 15, 2017

OTHER SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS As I undertook compiling, editing and designing volume one of the Society’s history in 2016, it became clear that many significant artists could not be accommodated within the framework I had set up in the book to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Jan Dutkiewicz

Posted on March 5, 2017

JAN DUTKIEWICZ (b. 1911, Stara Sol, Poland, d. Katowice, Poland, 1983)  

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz

Posted on February 21, 2017

Upon his arrival in Australia in 1949, Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz’s art was not too experimental: the paintings he managed to execute in Bavaria after the war were solid exercises in landscape, still-life and portraiture, in which he searched to find his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments