Dimensions: 52.5 x 33 cm
Signed p.d.: 'A. GAŁEK'
Biography
Andrzej Gałek was born in 1916 and died in 1993 in Zakopane. He was the son of Stanislaw Galek (1876-1961), a well-known Tatra landscape artist in the local community. In the 1930s and 1940s he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. Even before World War II, he became interested in the technique of painting on glass. After the war, his works were sold, among others, in establishments of the Central Bureau of Folk and Artistic Industry - "Cepelia". At that time he was also admitted to the Association of Polish Artists in Cracow. Within associations such as "Podhale Art" and Zakopane Pattern Workshops, he was involved in interior design and applied art. His painterly works on glass were part of the decoration of numerous buildings, including the "Tourist House" or hotels of the Orbis chain in Zakopane. The compositions of Gałek's works mainly operate with motifs related to the life and legends of the Podhale region. Religious painting is also an important iconographic theme.
