Work by Bogdan Cierpisz, oil, 66x54 cm, 1981.
Provenance-The work comes from the private collection of the artist's granddaughter.
Bogdan Cierpisz was born on 26.08.1930 in Pulawy. His father Stanislaw was a professional sergeant/corporal in the Polish Army, where he served as a feldsher. His mother Anna (née Bonczyk) worked as an epidemiological disease intelligence officer at the Municipal Health Department in Gdansk. From 1949 until the end of his life he was a resident of Gdansk. In the 1950′s he studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts first in Sopot then in Gdansk at the Faculty of Painting in the studios of: Jan Cybis, Stanisław Borysowski, Jan Wodyński, Jacek Żuławski. As a student, he participated in the restoration of tenements in the Old Town of Gdansk, among other things, using the sgraffito method.
