Aleksander Żyw

1905-1995
Aleksander Żyw

Aleksander Żyw was one of the most important émigré painters to settle in Scotland during the twentieth century, bringing to post-war Scottish art a distinctive European modernism shaped by war, exile and a lifelong engagement with the Mediterranean world. Born in Lida, Poland, in 1905, he moved to Warsaw as a child and enrolled at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in 1926, where he received a rigorous academic training grounded in drawing and traditional painting techniques.

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Underwater, 1956

oil on canvas
H:81.5cm W:65cm
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Zarysy (Outlines), 1951

oil on canvas
H:41cm W:51cm
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