Peter Potworowski 1889-1962 (BAA 1949-58) Born in Warsaw, Piotr Tadeusz Potworowski. Studied architecture Warsaw Polytechnic School transferred to painting 1920. 1923-24 Cracow Academy of Fine Art. 1924-30 lived in Paris. 1927 exhibited XXXVIII Salon des Independents. 1928 first visited England. Returned to Poland, exhibited with Paris Committee Group 1930 and in Geneva and Warsaw; 1937 Silver medallist International Exhibition of Art and Technique, Paris; 1938/39 one-man exhibition Warsaw and Lwow. Paintings lost during German occupation of Poland. 1940-42 moved to Sweden; 1943 left for Scotland then London. 1945 met Jankel Adler. 1946 first one-man exhibition Redfern Gallery, then Gimpel Fils 1948 (frequent exhibitions until 1956). Spent summers of 1946-48, Wookey Hole Somerset; from 1946 visited Sancreed, Cornwall (regularly until 1957). Invited to teach BAA from February 1949, aged 51, as an older and experienced artists was to have considerable influence on both pupils and staff. ‘He came from an outside world, from a longer timespan; he brought a foreign flavour and his values and approach were different’.* 1950 toured Spain with Kenneth Armitage; frequent trips to Europe. 1954 bought house, Pickwick near Corsham. 1955 exhibited Willis Galleries and Octagon Gallery. Bath, with other BAA colleagues and Polish Painters in Great Britain, Crane Gallery, Manchester. 1958 left for Poland with second wife, Doreen Heaton (ex BAA student): original intention to stay one year hut remained until death; one-man exhibition National Museum Poznan; appointed Professor Art College in Gdansk and Poznan. 1960 and 1961 designed for several theatrical productions in Poznan and Warsaw. 1960 exhibited Venice Biennale; 1962 one-man exhibition Paris and National Museum Poznan; died Warsaw same year. 1976 retrospective National Museum, Poznan. 1984 Royal West of England Academy and Institute of Education. Included in St Ives 1939-64 one-man exhibition Tate Gallery 1985. Letter trom Kenneth Armitage to Irena Moderska, published Piotr Potworowski 1898-1962, National Museum Poznan 1967/77.