gelatin-silver print, photographic paper, 18 x 13 cm, Photos from the film "Salto", dir. by Tadeusz Konwicki, 1965, on the reverse stamp
Unframed work.
Born in Moscow - one of the most prominent Polish photographers. His father ran a photo atelier in Moscow and later in Lublin, where the Hartwig family moved because of the revolution. Hartwig began taking photographs in the mid-1920s, and his first solo exhibition was held in Lublin in 1929. In 1932-34 he studied at the Graphisches Institut in Vienna in the studio of Rudolf Kapitz and Hams Daimler. In 1944-46 he was in the gulag - after the war he settled in Warsaw. He was primarily engaged in landscape photography, in which he pursued numerous formal experiments, mainly involving the use of image graphization, reaching abstract representations. He published many photo albums including: 'Family Land', (1955), Fotografika (1958), Backstage of the Theater (1969), Photographic Variations (1978), Willows (1989), Edward Hartwig's Poland (1995). In addition, he did portraits and theater photography. In 1969-74 he edited the Almanac of Polish photography. He was a founding member of ZPAP and an honorary member of FIAP and many other photographic organizations and societies, such as ZPAF.
After his death, his works were presented at many individual and collective exhibitions. In 2004, one of the alleys in Lublin was named the Hartwigs' alley. Two works by Edward Hartwig are in London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
