This article is dedicated to international
connections between selected representatives of Polish and
Western avant-gardes in art and literature of the interwar
period. Both the nature and the scale of such relations have
been exemplified by a number of artists from the “a.r.” group
– Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, Henryk Stażewski
and Jan Brzękowski, as well as their relationships with the
representatives of Dutch and Belgian formations, inter alia “De
Stijl” group. The origin of those connections has been briefly
presented, along with their nature, dynamics and an impact
they made on artworks and theories of chosen artists. Their
description is based on archival documents and publications,
from which a picture of direct relationships between the
leading artists of the European avant-garde emerges – some
of them personal, some correspondence-based; they have also
been presented in form of a diagram that illustrates the text.