Designer · Poland · 1905–1992
Władysław Wincze
Władysław Wincze (1905–1992) – Polish interior architect and furniture designer, member of Ład and founder of the Interior Architecture Department at PWSSP.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1905–1992
- Country
- Poland
He was born in 1905 in Odesa to a family of Polish origin, and it was there that he first encountered the visual arts. In 1922, he came to Poland. He initially studied architecture at Warsaw University of Technology, then moved to painting at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Before the war, he belonged to the Artists' Cooperative “Ład” and designed everyday objects with a simple, functional form inspired by folk art. His works included the “Sarenka” chair, the Ład stool, the children's “Biedronka” stool and an armchair-lounger. In 1939, he fought in the September Campaign, and from 1942 to 1944 he ran a cabinetmaking workshop in Warsaw together with Olgierd Szlekys and cabinetmaker Władysław Jaworski.
After 1945, he remained associated with “Ład” and designed inexpensive, multifunctional wooden furniture for small flats. In 1948, he began teaching at the State Higher School of Fine Arts (PWSSP) in Wrocław, where he founded the Interior Architecture Department and served as its professor and dean for many years. He designed interiors and furniture for industrial production, manufactured in Wrocław, Lower Silesia and other regions of the country, including the interiors of the university rectorate and senate; he also took part in competitions for the interiors of Finnish houses in Upper Silesia. He remained professionally active until the end of the 1970s.
In 1979, the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław presented his retrospective, and in 1994, after his death, an exhibition was organised by the BWA Dizajn gallery. At the turn of 2019 and 2020, the same museum organised the exhibition “Władysław Wincze. Interiors”, curated by Tomasz Mikołajczak, featuring designs, furniture prototypes and unpublished recollections by the designer.
