Tadeusz Fuss-Kaden

Tadé (the name used by Tadeusz Fuss-Kaden to sign his paintings) was a painter of Polish origin who gained international attention in the 1960's for his powerful abstract compositions made of plaster and resin on board, with strips and rounds of rusted tin cans embedded on the surface. He had major one-person exhibitions in Paris (Galerie Edouard Loeb, 1960, 1963), London (Marlborough Gallery, 1961), New York (Bertha Schaefer Gallery, 1963, 1966), Munich (Galerie Thomas, 1965) and Stockholm (Svea Galleriet, 1965) and was jury-selected for the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh (1964). Notable buyers of his paintings included playwright Samuel Beckett, pianist Artur Rubinstein, art historian Will Grohmann and entrepreneurs Burton Tremaine and John Delorean.

Fuss-Kaden was born in 1914 in Krakow, Poland, and was educated at Krakow University, the Institute of Plastic Arts, Warsaw, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. After fleeing Poland in 1939, he lived in Switzerland, in Nice and in Paris. In Nice he won first prizes in 1951 and 1952 from the Mediterranean Union for Modern Art. In Paris he studied architecture and went on to design distinguished Mediterranean-Modern residences in Puerto de Andratx on Mallorca.

Sources

#J. Reichardt, "Apollo" 74:152 (May, 1961).
#"Art News" (Summer 1962).
#"Art News" 65:64 (March, 1966).
#"Arts" 40:70 (April, 1966).
#Gustave von Groschwitz, catalogue for "1964 Pittsburgh Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, October 30, 1964-January 10, 1965.
#Sun Axelsson, catalogue for Tadé exhibition, Galerie Thomas, Munich, October 23-November 14, 1965.