Allan Rzepka (b. 1940, Krakow), Self-portrait with a loaf of bread, 1981

Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Faculty of Painting under Prof. Czeslaw Rzepinski and at the Faculty of Scenography under Prof. Andrzej Stopka. He received his diploma in 1963. Since the beginning of his artistic path, he has simultaneously practiced easel painting, printmaking and stage design. He is currently a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He paints mainly in cycles of several to a dozen paintings - examples of titles include "Stalls," "Mannequins," "Fears and Frights," "Whispers," "Artifacts," "Masquerades." "Scores," "The Only Exit," "From the Sketchbook," "Mr. Cogito," "Darkness," "Longings," "Trophies for the End of the Century," "Afterimages of the Age of Man," "Signs of the Times," "Arenas and Paper Birds." He had about 96 solo exhibitions and participated in 160 group exhibitions. Allan Rzepka's works can be found in the collections of the Wawel Castle, Collegium Maius, the National Museum in Cracow, the Ministry of Culture, the Carmelite Fathers, the Collections of TPSP in Cracow, and in museums in Bytom, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Olsztyn, Zamosc, Rzeszow and private collections in the country, as well as in Germany, Austria, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada. USA, Australia and the Ivory Coast.