Konrad
K. Pollesch was born in april 1940. From 1958 to 1963 he studied Polish
philology at the Jagiellonian University. He visited many countries,
among which are: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy
and Sweden. He has been to the USA twice as a scholar - the first time
from the Kosciuszko Foundation (1979), then from the State Department
(1988). He is involved in portrait and landscape photography. He is
also specialized in photographing pieces of art and documenting
cultural events. He is the author of the photographs from a series
"Museums of the World" and two monographic, author's publication about
the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow. He co - operates with a number of
magazines in Poland and abroad. Between 1987 and 1990 he documented the
Tadeusz Kantor's theatre Cricot 2, which resulted in organizing the
following exhibitions: "I will never come back here - photographs from
the rehearsals", Cricoteka, Cracow 1988; "Kantor in the Pollesch's
photography", Palace under the Sheep, Cracow 1989, "Kantor and his
theatre", The Cultural Centre of Nowa Huta, Cracow 1992; "Kantor - the
second anniversary of his death", Atelier Photographic Gallery, Cracow
1992; "Tadeusz Kantor fotografato da Pollesch", the Polish Institute,
Rome, December-January1995/1996.
He has been using the
gum-bichromate technique for making photos since 1985. They have been
presented in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, for example "30 gum
- prints from Remuh cemetery", Hadar Gallery, Cracow1991; "Twenty gum
prints from a single negative ", ZPAF Gallery, Cracow 1992; "Pollesch
in ATUT-gum - prints", ATUT Photographic Club Gallery, Konin 1995;
"Konrad K. Pollesch - gum - prints", Small Photographic Gallery ZPAF,
Torun 1995; "Gum - prints", B&B Photographic Gallery, Bielsko-Biala
1996, "Pollesch's gum - prints", POKAZ The Critics' Gallery, Warsaw,
August 1996.
Since 1991 he has been a member of the European Society of Pictorialists with its seat in Brussels.
For some time the artist was associated with the Cracow television.
They made there a series of programs dedicated to photographical
landscape, noble techniques, collecting old photographs and the
exhibition of photographic portraits of the Jagiellonian University
professors "Gowned and Informal"(Cracow 1986).
In February of 1989 the Polish Television broadcast a series called
"Portraits", in which a 50 minutes' film called "Konrad P. - a story
about an eye" directed by Stefan Szlachtycz, was broadcast. together
with Dariusz Pawelec the author made a series of educational programs
for the school youth about the photography "Photos for my aunt" (July
1994 - January 1995).
From 1971 to 1997 he conducted didactic classes on photography for the
students of the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University.
Konrad K. Pollesch has taken part in a number of group art
presentations among which were "Modern Polish art photography", Warsaw,
Wrclaw 1985; International Biennal of Graphics, Cracow 1986 (gum -
prints); "40 years of ZPAF", Warsaw 1987;
"Polish photography 1889-1979", New York, Chicago, Paris, London;
"Force, sex, nostalgy", Old Gallery ZPAF Warsaw 1989 (first prize in
"Nostalgy" section).
He has over 50 individual exhibitions in his art output, in Poland and abroad, for instance USA, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel, Czechoslovakia, and France.
Works of the artist can be found in the collections of the National Museum in Cracow, National Museum in Wroclaw, National Museum in Warsaw, Museum of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Museum of the History of Photography in Cracow, Museum of Modern Art in New Ÿork, International Center of Photography in New York, Library of Congress in Washington, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire in Fryburg (Switzerland) as well as in many private collections in Poland and abroad.
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