Wilhelm Sasnal is a contemporary Polish artist, best known for his atmospheric paintings and short films derived from mass media, daily life, and art history. Comparable to the work of Luc Tuymans, ...

No, they were almost certainly Jewish. Who else would be so frightened? Wilhelm Sasnal’s work has been inspired by Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” and Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah,” and the pic ...

Reacting to the classical, conservative techniques of their instructors at art school, they focused on everyday scenes and images from pop culture. This, however, is not quite the Wilhelm Sasnal ...

Fortunately, Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s show of new work ... The images come to Sasnal from the news, art history and daily life. There are fleeing Rohingya refugees, big recreations of ...

Sasnal’s enmeshing of Pop art with abstraction and romanticism means his paintings have been collected across the world by galleries from the Pompidou in Paris to the Museum of Modern Art ...

Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal poses in front of one of his art works on display in a new exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday June 15 ...

Wilhelm Sasnal has achieved a level of art-world prominence that most painters today can only dream of reaching. The Polish artist is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Pompidou ...

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The Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal, 43, studied architecture before becoming a painter. Though he is best known for his works on canvas, he also makes drawings, graphic novels, photographs and films.

In painting, simple often equals reductive. But not in Sasnal’s uncanny works, which disrupt any minimalist formula by employing among their two or three elements one startling object or technique.