Photogram T14/75/58

Photographer, painter, graduate of the Poznań University of Technology. Member of the National Photographic Society, ZPAF and ZPAP. In 1957, he organised the breakthrough exhibition of Polish photography entitled A Step into Modernity in Poznań. From 1957, a member of an informal photographic group (together with Jerzy Lewczyński and Zdzisław Beksiński). At the time, the artist began a new period in his photographic creativity, which, in formal terms, can be described as abstract. In 1958, Schlabs was the only Pole to take part in the exhibition organised by Otto Steinert entitled Subjective Fotografie in Essen. He exhibited together with Beksiński and Lewczyński in the Krzywe Koło Gallery in Warsaw (1957), at a closed show (Anti-photography - term coined by Alfred Ligocki) of the Gliwice Photography Assocation (1959) and at an untitled exhibition organised by Steinert in the Deutsche Gesselschaft für Photografie in Cologne (1961), which put an end to their collaboration. The years 1962 and 1974 constituted a break in the artist`s activity. It was only at the end of the 1980s that he vigorously returned to artistic experiments, and, until the beginning of the 1990s, he worked on his own technique, which is a unique synthesis of photography and painting. Schlabs also created series of photomontages using sepia toning, which allowed him to obtain a nostalgic aura.