He was overcome by a feeling of nothingness. Eventually, he had an armful of pens and felt ecstatic. In his dream, he spotted one on the grass, and shortly after, he found another one. As a child, one night he had dreamed about a fountain pen that he had coveted but couldn’t afford. Zdzisław Beksiński’s dreams had always been grim. New weapons of mass destruction were introduced onto the world stage and nuclear war had the potential to put an end to all of human existence. A new superpower had been established and during the Soviet occupation of Poland, the war went cold. Nazi Germany was conquered after the counter-invasion from the Soviets. Photograph of Zdzisław Beksiński in front of the Historical Museum in Sanok, 1991 Piotr Dmochowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In 1940, the Zaslav concentration camp was erected on the outskirts of Sanok and would be in operation for the next three years.Īlthough Beksiński was not Jewish, Sanok had one of the largest percentages of Jewish people in the country, with over 30% of its people being Jewish. When Beksiński Zdzisław was ten, World War II began and the Nazis invaded Poland. Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Southern Poland in the town of Sanok in 1929. Much of his work echoed the horrors of World War II, but his dark aesthetic has become particularly popular in the internet age.īeksiński brought global attention to Polish art and he is arguably the greatest Polish artist to date. Throughout his 50-year career, Zdzisław Beksiński‘s paintings went through a variety of styles. War, doomsday, devastation, death, desolation, emaciation, spirituality, eroticism, religion, architecture Into the Abyss with Zdzisław Beksiński Date of Birth 4.3 What Does Beksiński Have to Do with Metal Music?.1 Into the Abyss with Zdzisław Beksiński.

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