JAN KAMIENSKI 1923 - 2010
Jan Kamienski was born in 1923 in Poznan, Poland where he began his
art training. After studying in Paris at Ecole des Arts et Metiers,
Kamienski attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, where
he studied painting and graphics and earned the designation of Master
Student. Kamienski moved to Canada in 1949 and settled in Winnipeg to
work as a commercial artist, designer, illustrator, and freelancing in
advertising art, including film animation. In 1991, following a
successful career as a political cartoonist, art critic, columnist,
editorial writer and arts page editor, Kamienski returned to painting
full-time. His works can be found in collections in Germany, France,
England, Poland, and Canada.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT:
Artists ought to remain motionless only in their self-portraits,
or after they are dead and perhaps displayed as bronze statues in
honour of their work.
Many of them work long enough to develop a uniquely personal style and
stay with it, not daring to step sideways or go forward to explore
other avenues.
It has been my good fortune to discover some of those avenues and
experiment along their lines, not to find a stylistic pied-a-terre to
stay put permanently, but to regard it as a place to rest, reflect and
move on from there. This is why my work often varies in manner and
approach to its thematic content, and consequently avoids the
straitjacket of an immutable style.
Jan Kamienski
PRIZES AND AWARDS:
City of Dresden Prize for graphic work, 1947
Dresdener Kulturbund Prize, 1948
Art Directors Club,Toronto, 1956
Prix du Salon International de Caricature, Montreal, 1963
National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning, 1964
BOOK:
Hidden in the Enemy's Sight - Resisting the Third Reich from
Within;(WWII Memoir; Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2008)
WORK PUBISHED: (political cartooning, illustration,
misc. writing)
Winnipeg Sun
Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg Free Press
New York Times
Edmonton Journal
Calgary Herald
Vancouver Province
Ottawa Journal
TIME Magazine
MacLean's Magazine
The Beaver Magazine
Queen's Quarterly
Collections of satirical art in Canada and U.S.
Kamienski is also listed in the Chronicle of Canada (1990) and the
Canadian Encyclopedia 2000 |
