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Books by Zdzisław Beksiński

The Fantastic Art of Beksinski
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4.62 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions

Beksiński. Dzień po dniu kończącego się życia
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3.65 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2016

Beksiński 1
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4.75 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions

Beksiński 2
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4.70 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions

Zdzisław Beksiński. Opowiadania
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3.43 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions

Beksiński 3
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4.62 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions

Beksiński 4
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4.73 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions

Detoks. Zdzisław Beksiński, Norman Leto. Korespondencja, rozmowa
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings

Beksinski. Sztuki plastyczne / Fine Arts: Drawing, Painting, Photography, Graphics
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4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings

Foto Beksiński
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4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011

Beksinski - Complete: Vol. 1-4
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4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions

Zdzisław Beksiński Fotografia
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published

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Zdzisław Beksiński

Polish artist (1929–2005)

Zdzisław Beksiński (pronounced[ˈzd͡ʑiswafbɛkˈɕiɲskʲi]; 24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor specializing in the field of dystopiansurrealism.

Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Gothic manner. His creations were made mainly in two periods. The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic colour, with a strong style of "utopian realism" and surreal architecture. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.^[1]

Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment on February 21, 2005, by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because Beksiński refused to lend him money.^[2]

Life

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Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Sanok, southern Poland. He studied architecture at Kraków Polytechnic in 1947, finishing his studies in 1952.^[3] He returned to Sanok in 1955, working as a construction site supervisor, but found that he did not enjoy it. During this period, he had an interest in montage photography, sculpting, and painting. When he first started sculpting, he often used his construction site material