Jan Cybis

Jan Cybis (16 February 1897 – 13 December 1972) was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher.

Cybis was born in Fröbel (now Wróblin, Opole Voivodeship, Poland) and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, settling in that city from 1934.

[2] He studied under Józef Pankiewicz among others, developing a reputation for a post-impressionist style using rich, saturated color influenced by the French.

[3] In the 1930s Cybis was among the most prominent of the Kapists or Paris Committee, a significant group of Polish painters of the time.

[4] Among other recognitions, Cybis was awarded the Polish communist government's Order of the Banner of Work in 1949 and the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland in 1955, although during the Socialist Realism period Cybis was prevented from teaching for ideological reasons.