An inventory of all Hiszpanski's postwar works (as only these survived) was carried out in the course of preparations for the retrospective exhibition, which took place in the Warsaw "Zacheta" Gallery. The entire surviving artistic output of Stanislaw Hiszpanski comprises 636 works. More then 140 works have been acquired by various museums and the Ministry of Art and Culture. Many others are in private hands.

His pictures testify to a man of many passions - an architect, a historian and archeologist, an aviator and mountaineer, a collector of folklore, and a philosopher. Here we present pictures representing cycles or sets inspired by:

• the culture of European and Middle East antiquity
• the beauty of architecture
• the Bible
• classical literature, and tales and legends
• everyday observation and... humour

BIEŻĄCE WYSTAWY

From 12 May to 6 June till June - "Philosophy and Fantasy - the art of Stanisław and Bogna Hiszpańskis" in  Fangorówka Gallery. The exhibition commemorating a jubilee of the Polish Academy of Sciences will be opened by the Polish President and the President of the Academy.

From 17 September till the end of the month - "Passion of Three Generations" will present  the works of Stanisław Hiszpański, Bogna Hiszpańska ( the daughter), and Olga Ketling-Szemley (the granddaughter) in Fabryka Trzciny Gallery in Hoovera square in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw.