Post by mongo on Feb 22, 2005 15:21:30 GMT -5
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WARSAW, Poland -- Zdzislaw Beksinski, a surrealist painter who was one of Poland's leading contemporary artists, was found stabbed to death at his Warsaw home, police said Tuesday. He was 75.
Relatives found Beksinski's body overnight, and "everything indicates it was murder," police spokeswoman Zuzanna Talar said. He suffered multiple stab wounds, she said.
There were no signs his home had been broken into, police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski told TVN24 television.
Beksinski was considered one of Poland's leading contemporary artists. He emerged on the Polish art scene in the 1950s and was best known for his abstract renditions of skeletons, monster-like creatures and other apocalyptic images evoking death.
He studied architecture in Krakow before moving into painting, photography and drawings. His works hang in the National Museum in Wroclaw, the National Museum in Warsaw and in a museum in Sanok.
He also exhibited in private galleries in France and Germany, but never found the same recognition abroad that he did in his homeland, said Wieslaw Banach, director of the Sanok museum.
WARSAW, Poland -- Zdzislaw Beksinski, a surrealist painter who was one of Poland's leading contemporary artists, was found stabbed to death at his Warsaw home, police said Tuesday. He was 75.
Relatives found Beksinski's body overnight, and "everything indicates it was murder," police spokeswoman Zuzanna Talar said. He suffered multiple stab wounds, she said.
There were no signs his home had been broken into, police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski told TVN24 television.
Beksinski was considered one of Poland's leading contemporary artists. He emerged on the Polish art scene in the 1950s and was best known for his abstract renditions of skeletons, monster-like creatures and other apocalyptic images evoking death.
He studied architecture in Krakow before moving into painting, photography and drawings. His works hang in the National Museum in Wroclaw, the National Museum in Warsaw and in a museum in Sanok.
He also exhibited in private galleries in France and Germany, but never found the same recognition abroad that he did in his homeland, said Wieslaw Banach, director of the Sanok museum.
