Wladyslaw Strzeminski
1893 - 1952
Lives in Łódź (Poland).
The painter and a pioneer of constructivist avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, Strzemiński was the author of a theory of seeing, and the concept of unism. Together with his wife, Katarzyna Kobro, he instigated the construction of the Art Museum in Łódź. It was thanks to the couple's efforts, that one of the largest Central European collections was gathered at the Museum in Łódź.