Jacek Gulla (born in 1948 in Kraków, he died Nov.14, 2021 in New York ) - artist, painter, philosopher, poet.

Born and raised in Krakow, where he attended the Art High School, he participated in the hippies movement in the 1960s, described in Kamil Sipowicz's book "Hippies in the People's Republic of Poland", was friends with Tadeusz Kantor.

"Jagiellonian tapestries made me a painter," recalls Gulla, "when I saw them on Wawel after their return from Canada, God was God from a distance of a dozen steps, Noah, a panther. However, it was enough to get closer to Raj and the Tower of Babel and the Deluge be streams of colorful threads, the same ones my grandmother darn on my socks. "

The first Gulla publications in Poland include in the literary monthly Nowy Wyraz, popular in the 70s, they promised great talent. He was associated with the artistic avant-garde bohemian Cracow and Warsaw and the hippies community, as Sipowicz writes about in the book and interviews.

In 1972 he went to New York, where he lives until today, belonging to an artistic bohemia, a film about him was filmed. "Jacek Gulla's life in NYC-OSCES".

Source: https://www.czczaplinski.com/post/portret-z-historią-jacek-gulla