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WARSAW, Poland (AP)-- An exhibition is opening in Warsaw of abstract works by prominent American painter Frank Stella that were inspired by painted wooden synagogues that once existed across Poland but were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.

Frank Stella, whose megasurvey at the Whitney Museum of American Art closed in February, is represented by two cardboard constructions from his «Polish Village» series, inspired by traditional wooden synagogues.

LeWitt collaborated with architect Stephen Lloyd to design a synagogue for his congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek; he conceptualized the «airy» synagogue building, with its shallow dome supported by «exuberant wooden roof beams», an homage to the wooden synagogues of eastern Europe.

He embarked on that project after he was inspired by a 1959 book by Polish architects Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka entitled «Wooden Synagogues.»

In the summer of 1970, a lengthy hospital stay and a gift from architect Richard Meier — a book entitled Wooden Synagogues — provided Frank Stella with inspiration for his Polish Village series of works.

In particular, his work responded to the architecture of sacred spaces, from Poland «s rustic wooden synagogues to the dynamic edifices of Baroque Rome.

Each work, (pictured above) is named after a Polish town where one of the destroyed wooden synagogues was located.

The exhibition featured, for the first time, Stella's reliefs from the «Polish Village» series, set beside the prewar photographs and drawings of the wooden synagogues that inspired them.

Black and White, Mostly — Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX The Grant and Peggy Reuber Collection of International Works on Paper — McIntosh Gallery, London, ON Local History: Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd, Frank Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City, NY Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery — London, London In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking — Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Taking A Stand Against War — Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella: Wooden Synagogues — Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Love Story — Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze — Schweizergarten, Vienna Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection — The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Openness And Clarity: Color Field Works From The 1960S And 1970S — Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Exhibition: Part I — Van Doren Waxter, New York City, NY The Shaped Canvas, Revisited — Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, NY Calculated Abstractions — Hard - Edge Prints — UB Art Galleries — University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Solidaridad Y Resistencia.

Frank Stella's Polish village series draws on images of Wooden synagogues published by Maria and Kazimierz Piechotkain in their 1957 book, Wooden synagogues.

This is worth noting only because the forty or so works in the series on display are based on photographs and drawings of wooden synagogues in eastern Poland.

Here Stella discusses the show as well as the genesis of the works, their exhibition history, and what it means to present his works in Poland, where the titular inspirational wooden synagogues once stood.

I came across the images in Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka's book Wooden Synagogues (Arkady, 1959).

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At a synagogue just a mile from where she had been gunned down, Meadow Pollack, 18, lay in a plain wooden coffin, closed in accordance with Jewish tradition.