Major Waldemar Fydrych

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Major Waldemar Fydrych Biography

Fydrych was born in Toruń, Poland on April 8, 1953. He is a graduate of the History and History of Art Faculty of the University of Wroclaw. Fydrych began his independent public activity in the 1970s. He created a branch of the Independent Students Union (NZS) in Wrocław and launched the Movement for New Culture in the city. He was also one of the co-organizers of a massive peace march that took place in April 1981.

Waldemar Andrzej Fydrych “Major” (born April 8, 1953) is a Polish activist and founding leader of the Orange Alternative movement in Poland.

Starting in 1986, he began organizing a chain of happenings, which were eventually named the “Orange Alternative.” These happenings involved hundreds up to thousands of participants at a given time. At its heyday in 1987, 1988 and 1989, Major Fydrych’s “Orange Alternative” spread to other Polish cities, Warsaw, Łódź, Wrocław and Lublin being the most active. Altogether in the period of 1986 to 1990 the Orange Alternative organized over 60 street happenings. In March 1988, after distributing women’s sanitary pads on the street (an item that was in severe shortage in Communist Poland), Waldemar Fydrych was arrested and sentenced by the Court of Justice to three months of imprisonment. He was released following general public uproar, including a letter to the military junta signed by the foremost Polish intellectuals and artists.

In 2002, Fydrych presented himself in elections to the post of the Mayor of the City of Warsaw. He also ran for mayor of Warsaw in 2006 elections, gaining 2914 votes (0,41%). His organization was Dolts and Dwarves (Gamonie i Krasnoludki).

In 2012, Fydrych received Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland after defending his thesis “Happening as the integrating and healing operation transforming art and reality” written under supervision of Professor Stanisław Wieczorek.

In 2013, Major Fydrych and his dwarf graffiti were featured in Brad Finger’s book „Surrealism – 50 Works of Art You Should Know” published by PRESTEL Publishing along with works of such great artists as Artaud, Duchamp, Buñuel, Dali and Picasso.

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