Andrzej Wróblewski

He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating a distinctly individualistic approach to representational art.

[2] Immediately after the end of World War II, following the shifting of Poland's national borders, his family moved from Wilno to Kraków, where he passed the matura exams and became a student in the Painting and Sculpture Department of Poland's oldest art school, the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied between 1945 and 1952 under Zygmunt Radnicki, Zbigniew Pronaszko (pl), Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa and Jerzy Fedkowicz.

[2] Through exploration in art Wroblewski devised his own formal style, with his own artistic interpretation, revealed in one of his most famous works Executions dating from the late 1940s illustrating his heightened expressiveness and metaphorical abilities depicting real life events.

After the death of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and resulting destalinization lessened governmental pressures on various spheres of life, art included.

[5] In November 2021, his painting titled Two Married Women (Polish: "Dwie mężatki") was sold at an auction in Warsaw for a record 13.4 million zloty (ca.

Wróblewski simultaneously studied art history at the famous Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1945–48.
Executions of Polish civilian hostages following the invasion of Poland in 1939. Wróblewski's most famous works were devoted to their memorialization through art.