Zdzisław Beksiński: The Polish Painter Who Made Nightmares Beautiful (And Had a Killer Sense of Humor)

July 1, 2026By Joe LatimerArt, Artist, Zdzisław Beksiński

When your day job is architecture, but your soul screams apocalypse, you get Zdzisław Beksiński, who had no formal training as an artist, graduating instead with an architecture degree from the Kraków Polytechnic in 1952. But here’s the beautiful irony: while he was supposed to be designing functional buildings, his actual calling was painting worlds … Read More