Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'WNĘTRZE | WITH | AN ACT | JERZY | NOWOSIELSKI | 1971' and dedication: 'To dear | Mrs. Basia | on | the | name day | J.N. | 4.XII.74'.
on the reverse a sticker of the Museum of Art in Lodz - export sticker for the Edinburgh Art Festival in 1972
State of preservation
Authenticity consulted with Nowosielski Foundation in Krakow
Origin
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
BWA Exhibition Pavilion, Cracow, 1974
Krzysztofory, Cracow, 1972
Festival of Art, Edinburgh, 1972
Krzysztofory, Cracow, 1971
Biography
In 1940 he began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Cracow. Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1944. Member of the Group of Young Visual Artists and the Cracow Group. In 1976-92 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Painter, draughtsman, stage designer, creator of figural compositions, still lifes, nudes, landscapes and sacred paintings, in which he combined modern elements with influences of Byzantine art. His unique style is characterized by the use of a flat arrangement of color patches edged with a clean contour line and a synthesizing vision of everyday life. He is the author of numerous polychrome paintings in churches (including the Church of the Holy Spirit in Nowe Tychy, the church in Wesoła near Warsaw, the church in Lourdes, France) and iconostasis (including the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Cracow). The artist's works are in numerous museum collections in Poland and in private collections (USA, Canada, France, Germany). In 1993 he was awarded the Great Cultural Foundation Prize for outstanding cultural achievements.