Stanisław Szukalski

Style: Art Deco; Impressionism;

Place: Warta

Born: 1893

Death: 1987

Biography:

Stanisław Szukalski was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. Szukalski's art exhibits influence from ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Slavic, and Aztec combined with elements of art nouveau, from the various currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism and pre-Columbian art. During the 1920s, he was hailed as Poland's 'greatest living artist'. The style of his art was called 'Bent Classicism'. He also developed the pseudoscientific-historical theory of Zermatism, positing that all human culture was derived from post-deluge Easter Island and that humankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of Yeti ('Yetinsyny'), the offspring of Yeti and humans.