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Karol Hiller (1891-1939) was one of the most versatile artists of the interwar avant-garde who created paintings, drawings and graphic works. In 1928 he started to experiment with the artistic technique he had invented-heliography. He drew and painted on a transparent plate which he then treated with chemicals, printing the results on photographic paper.
Hiller graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Kiev. At that time, he encountered various traditions-the art of symbolic icons, on the one hand, and the fervently creative Russian avant-garde, on the other. In 1921 Hiller moved to ?ódz', where he met poet Witold Wandurski. Together they created a series of texts on the modern factory city, Sztuki plastyczne w ?odzi (Visual Arts in ?ódz').
In the late 1920s Hiller turned to abstract painting, and together with W?adys?aw Strzemin'ski, the outstanding Polish constructivist and a leading figure of the avant-garde of that time, established Forma (Form) magazine. In 1930 Hiller presented his best two paintings to the International Collection of Modern Art gathered by a.r. group. The collection became the basis of today's collection of the Museum of Art in ?ódz'.
The New Perspective exhibition at that museum presents paintings, linoleum prints, lithographs, heliographic compositions, drawings, book plates, book covers, photographs and documents linked to Hiller's life.
The exhibition runs until March 31.
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