Władysław Hasior

Władysław Hasior (; 14 May 1928 – 14 July 1999) was a Polish sculptor, painter and theatre set designer. He was one of the leading Polish contemporary sculptors connected with the Podhale region.

Biography Władysław Hasior was born in Nowy Sącz on 14 May 1928. From 1947 to 1952, he studied under Professor Antoni Kenar at the State Secondary School of Visual Art Techniques in Zakopane. In 1952 he started his studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He graduated from the Academy in 1958. From 1959 to 1960, he stayed in Paris as a holder of a scholarship of the French Ministry Culture and studied under Ossip Zadkine. His first individual exhibition was in 1961 at the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw. Since then his works have been displayed at over seventy individual exhibitions in Poland and Europe. In 1968 Hasior had returned to his first school and became a teacher there until 1968.

Hasior’s art meant to provoke and shock the beholder. He continuously experimented with forms, techniques and materials by creating spatial compositions, assemblages and collages. He also authored many unconventional monuments and plein air sculptures, both in Poland and abroad. Since 1984 artist focused on the continuous arrangement of the authors Gallery.

Władysław Hasior died on 14 July 1999, in Kraków. He is buried at the Zakopane Cemetery of the Meritorious at Pęksowy Brzyzek.

Hasior Museum in Zakopane Gallery devoted to Hasior's work has existed since 1984 and is situated in the interior of the 'deck-chair rental' by the Warszawianka Hotel, a building that was built prior to World War II when Zakopane was an antituberculosis resort and bed rest in the open air was a common form of treatment.

Hasior's Gallery is currently hosted as a branch of the Tatra Museum, which the artist enriched with a "dowry" of around one hundred of his works. These pieces served as the base for the permanent, public exhibition on the ground floor of the building. The host of gallery has continuously developed and altered this collection.

Education 1947–1952, High school of Art Techniques in Zakopane 1952–1958, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Works Niobe (1961) series of Banners (1965–1975) Golgota (1971) Dark landscape (1974) Embroidery of Character (1974) Interrogation of Angel (1980)

Monuments For the rescuers in Zakopane(1959) Organ on Snozka pass near Czorsztyn (1966) Monument to the executed hostages from Nowy Sącz in Wrocław (1966) Burned Pieta near Copenhagen (1972) Firey Birds in Szczecin (1975) Burning Birds in Koszalin (1977)