MS2 - ART MUSEUM
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Today, it is one of Poland's finest museums of modern and contemporary art. Its collection was created on the initiative of Wladyslaw Strzeminski, painter and art theorist, representative of Constructivism in Poland. With his wife Katarzyna Kobro, herself a famous sculptor, painter Henryk Stazewski, and poets Jan Brzekowski and Julian Przyboś, he founded the famous A.R. group (initials of "avant-garde du réel - revolutionary artists") in 1929. Linked to the experience of the Russian avant-garde, they began to build up a collection of Art Nouveau, mainly through direct contacts with the "Cercle et Carré and Abstraction - Création" groups, formed in Paris. In the end, it was Stażewski and Brzekowski who brought the works together in France. Overall, they will bring together 111 works by famous representatives of the Polish and international avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes abstract and constructivist works, as well as some examples of Surrealist creation and works representing the figurative trend in European art. The Groupe A.R. collection was the second largest museum collection of avant-garde art in Europe (after the Cabinet Abstrait in Hanover, opened in 1927). Contemporary works have been added to the collection, making this museum in its ultramodern setting an exciting and unexpected visit to a city like Łódź. The museum has three other branches to visit in the city (see site).
Deux Français se sont égarés curieusement dans le corpus : Jean Lurçat avec un paysage (1931) et la ch'timi Geneviève Claisse avec une abstraction géométrique (1968) peu inspirée !