Dimensions: 110 x 54 cm
signed l.d.: 'B.KIERZKOWSKI'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'BRONISŁAW KIERZKOWSKI | COM.FAKTUROWA NR.241/59'.
Provenance
collection of Wojciech Fibak
private collection, Poland
private collection, Warsaw
Literature
New Images. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, Warsaw 2007, p. 94 (il.).
Biography
Studied from 1946 to '47 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz under the direction of Władysław Strzemiński. He continued his studies in Gdansk and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Eugeniusz Eibisch (1951 - 55). He received his diploma in 1956. He taught there from 1962 - 63, and then at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (1963 - 78). Since 1978, again at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1987, he received the title of professor. After a period of informel and experiments with matter painting, from around 1957 he created plaster reliefs, the most characteristic for him. The artist's works can be found in state and private, Polish and international collections.
