Lubomir Tomaszewski

Lifetime

1923–2018

Country

Poland

He was born on 9 June 1923 in Warsaw. He was a soldier in the Home Army and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, he studied architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology for three years, and in 1955 graduated from the Sculpture Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

From 1956, he worked at the Ceramics and Glass Studio of the Institute of Industrial Design (IWP) in Warsaw, as part of a team designing porcelain figurines. He specialised in human figures with simplified silhouettes, emphasised by a simple line; he also designed animals. His figurines include, among others, Girl Combing Her Hair (1956), Lady with a Mirror (1958), The Kiss (1958), Arab Woman (1959), Singer (1959) and Girl in Trousers (1965). From 1961, he worked on coffee services – Dorota and Ina entered production in Ćmielów. In 1963, the Dorota service was awarded a gold medal at the First International Exhibition of Industrial Forms in Paris.

In 1966, he emigrated to the United States, and from 1967 lectured at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He worked in sculpture and painting, including paintings created with fire and smoke; he co-founded the movement known as emotionalism. In 2005, he designed new figurines for Fabryka Porcelany AS in Ćmielów. In 2014, he received the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. He died on 15 November 2018 in New York.