Józef Szajna (1922 - 2008)
Studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts.
Co-founder, director, artistic director of the People's Theatre in Krakow.
Founded the Warsaw based "Teatr Studio".
Painter, designer, director and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
He is a survivor of both the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, where he was held prisoner during WWII (prisoner number 18729).
Szajna's imagistic art is directly related to the Holocaust. Like many Polish artists of his time, his work is dark, not "pretty", and deeply involves memory. His imagery is often shattered remains of personhood and the psychology of hope, the seemingly unattainable struggle for something beyond the circumstances that befall and bring horror to the human condition. In Poland, however, Szajna is most well-known for his innovations with theater; His theater, which also deals directly with the memory and monstrosity of the Holocaust, seeks abstraction and becomes theatrical "art".
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