Original paintings by Robert Lenkiewicz, artist

Original paintings by Robert Lenkiewicz

Picture of Robert Lenkiewicz (R.O. Lenkiewicz)

Robert Lenkiewicz was born in London in 1942 to parents who were Jewish refugees from Russia and attended school at St Martin's, Charing Cross Road before going to the Royal Academy, Piccadilly, where he taught and lectured.

Robert Lenkiewicz had a strong interest in philosophy and considerable social activities led to him formulating nine warehouses which he tenanted with several hundred alcoholics and problem people. This led to a term of imprisonment which encouraged Lenkiewicz to re-evaluate his life style, and he decided to approach the social and philosophical issues that interested him from a more oblique angle. This involved large-scale projects on aspects of the human condition.

These studies by R. O. Lenkiewicz are attempts to present information by means of visual imagery and they tie up with a line of enquiry related to his interests in the physiological basis of aesthetics. This enquiry is of importance to Lenkiewicz, who possessed a significant library on philosophic and related issues. It was the hope of Robert Lenkiewicz that his library and work could stay together and that, in due course, it might serve the function of an entirely non-commercial museum for the sole purpose of the provocation of thought.