Dobkowski completed the Secondary School of Art in Warsaw, and in 1962, he took up studies at the Department of Painting in Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts. He was the student of professor Juliusz Studnicki and Jan Cybis. He completed his diploma piece under Cybis in 1968.
Jan Dobkowski has been presented with the award of the Minister of Culture and Art for his popularization of artistic creativity (1970), and was also a recipient of Kościuszko Foundation scholarship in New York (1972). In 1970, he received a gold medal and an award at the symposium of Gold Recame in Zielona Góra. In 1978, he was presented with th Cyprian Norwid award of art critics, for the best exhibition of the year. In 1994, Dobkowski he was honoured with life achievement award of Jan Cybis.
The works of Dobkowski can be found in numerous collections, among them those of the Art Museum in Łódź , the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Wrocław, the National Museum in Poznań, and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His paintings are also in private collections in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, the USA, Switzerland, and France. (Culture.pl)
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| Rysunek (1999) |
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| Naczynia połączone, 1971 |
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| Eternal Mother, 1972 |
