LITERATURE:
- "Mikołaj Kochanowski (1916-1987). Album of Creativity" [exhibition catalog], published by Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow 201, item 2, p. 35.
Artist painter and educator. In 1938 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, which were interrupted by the outbreak of the war, in which the artist took part. After the war ended, he re-entered the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1947. He was immediately appointed as an assistant at the Department of Painting, where he served as a teacher and drawing teacher for more than 30 years (until 1982). At the same time, he worked on his art all the time - starting with classical painting, he quickly began to search for his own form of expression, which he found in geometric abstraction, often created using ready-made objects. He held his first solo exhibition in 1960 at the Artists' House. He participated in more than 120 exhibitions at home and abroad, including in France, Norway and Hungary. He traveled to Paris and Italy thanks to artistic ministerial scholarships. He was a versatile artist, he painted oil works, created collages, made abstract reliefs using ready-made objects, designed interiors and decorations, and took part in Tadeusz Kantor's happening (1965).
