He spent several years away from his home town Sanok, working on various construction sites as a construction site supervisor. After completing college he was obliged to take up a mandatory job assignment, which was then required by the orders of the Socialist government. His wife became his muse, and he often used her as a principal model, especially in his photographic works.īeksiński had no formal training as an artist. On April 30th, 1951 Beksiński married Zofia Helena Stankiewicz, and they remained married until her death on September 22nd, 1998. Later in his life he commented on his choice of architectural studies over art: “I hated architecture so much that architecture is a plan, a project and as boring as a mechanical saw execution”. He studied there and graduated with MSc received in 1952. In line with the family tradition, he made him apply to the Faculty of Architecture & Engineering at the Krakow Polytechnic. But his father did not consent, thinking it would not secure his son's future. During the War, he attended clandestine grammar school, and after the war ended he wanted to study film and to become a movie director. Apparently, during the German occupation of Poland during the Second World War he was given a false year of birth to save him from deportation to Germany to slave labor. Zdzisław Beksiński was born on 24th February 1929 in Sanok, though he used to say that this date was not at all certain.
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