The biography curated by Professor Paolo Sandano has appeared for the first time in the catalog "Olinsky, forse l'ultimo pittore del XX secolo" by Galleria l'Affiche (Milan) in 1996
continue…Founded by the heirs, the Olinsky Archive was created with the intention of shedding light on the life of the legendary Transdanubian artist.
continue…After the birth of his second child Teo, Olinsky left off in isolation. He will keep in touch with the outside world only through his Italian biographer’s prudent intercession: Prof. Paolo Sandano. He is nowadays the Archive’s Administator.
continue…He adopted a wire-haired dachshund breed Prussian.
continue…His son Teo was born.
continue…His first daughter Mimì was born.
continue…He started a long period of artistic research.
continue…At an evening party with the main pop artists, he quarrelled with Warhol who provoked him and courted him openly and in a vulgar way.
continue…He returned to New York. He inherited his brother’s flat and a certain sum of money wich enabled him to live confortably and to associate with New York artistic and intellectual smart set.
continue…He spent his time in Venice.
continue…At the end of 1946 he settled in New York but the cynical and small-town (still “subjected” to European culture) artistic set disappointed him.
continue…He moved to Paris and associated with André Breton but he didn’t completely share surrealistic ideas.
continue…Because of many artistic disappointments he decided to enter the Valladolid Franciscan Convent hoping to find solace in religion.
continue…Olinsky was 37 years old when he settled in Madrid.
continue…He attended the Celjabinsk Fine Arts School and his work were refused at the Painters’ Association Show of this town.
continue…In summer Olinsky travelled over the peninsula of Gyda on the east coast of the Lapten Sea and, despite the rigorous temperatures of those places, he went on painting landscape from life.
All his life long he travelled almost every year.
Olinsky was born on 28th March 1886 at Slavateck in West Slavonija.
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