Surrealist Beksinski celebrated in Vienna show
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
24.05.2013 11:46
Late Polish painter Zdzislaw Beksinski has his belated Viennese debut this weekend at the International Museum of Fantastic Art.
Image: polnisches-institut.at
Works have been loaned from the Historical Museum in the south eastern Polish town of Sanok, where the artist was born in 1929.
“It was Beksinski's dream to have an exhibition in Vienna or Prague,” said Wieslaw Banak, director of the museum, in an interview with the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
“He was fascinated with art from this part of Europe at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Gustav Mahler's music, and the works of Franz Kafka,” he added.
Beksinski's life came to a brutal halt in 2005 when he was murdered in his Warsaw apartment, apparently for having not given a loan to an acquaintance.
In his will, he left his entire collection to his hometown of Sanok.
“Zdzislaw Beksinski: The Darkness of the Subconscious” runs at International Museum of Fantastic Art (Phantastenmuseum) until 22 June. (nh)