FROM ŁÓDŹ TO LEIDEN – ON INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS OF THE POLISH INTERWAR AVANT-GARDE

This article is dedicated to internationalconnections between selected representatives of Polish andWestern avant-gardes in art and literature of the interwarperiod. Both the nature and the scale of such relations havebeen exemplified by a number of artists from the “a.r.” group– Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, Henryk Stażewskiand Jan Brzękowski, as well as their relationships with therepresentatives of Dutch and Belgian formations, inter alia “DeStijl” group. The origin of those connections has been brieflypresented, along with their nature, dynamics and an impactthey made on artworks and theories of chosen artists. Theirdescription is based on archival documents and publications,from which a picture of direct relationships between theleading artists of the European avant-garde emerges – someof them personal, some correspondence-based; they have alsobeen presented in form of a diagram that illustrates the text.