Jozef Jarema Biography
Jozef Jarema (1900, Staryj Sambir – 1974, Munich) Polish painter, member of the Kapistów. From 1918 to 1924 he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with Jacek Malczewski, then in Paris with Józefa Pankiewicza. Returning to his homeland in 1931, he collaborated with the magazine “Glos plastyków”, in 1932 he was co-founder of the experimental theater Cricot for which he created numerous shows. From 1934 to 1937 he was involved in the decoration of the ceilings in Wawelu Castle. During the Second World War he was engaged in Romania and Italy. With Józefa Czapskiego he was employed in the activities conducted by Zygmunta Turkiewicza. Together with other artists in the army he participated in painting exhibitions that took place in Baghdad, Tel Aviv and Rome. After the war he settled in Rome, where together with Severini, Prampolini, Fazzini and Guzzi he founded the Art Club which brought together avant-garde artists from different countries. During this period he married Maria Sperling, and then moved to Nice. In France they founded a weaving workshop where he created and designed fabrics, tapestries and carpets, characterized by abstract patterns. He was one of the organizers of the Congress of Fine Arts, which took place in 1953, in Palermo. After 1960 he moved to Munich, where he died in 1974. Initially he painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits, subsequently, from 1948, geometric abstractions. In the National Museum in Krakow there are eight paintings by Jarema (works from 1950 to 1964). In 1996, the artist's heirs Carina and Christan Leprette donated a collection of his paintings, collages and tapestries from the 1970s as well as a selection of drawings from the 1940s to the Sanoku Historical Museum.
