Dimensions: 90 x 121 cm
Signed and described on the painter's loom: 'K. Bereźnicki Martwa natura z potkami'
Signed and described on the reverse: 'K. Bereźnicki | [illegible]'.
Source
collection of Lech Siuda
private collection, Poland
Biography
Studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk, where he received his diploma in the studio of Prof. Stanislaw Teisseyre in 1958. Since 1960, he has worked at the academy, running his own painting studio since 1982. In 1981-1984, he served as pro-rector. Since 1984, he has been a professor. He has participated in exhibitions since 1959, achieving numerous successes, such as: first prize at the National Exhibition of Young Painting, Sopot 1965, gold medal at the 6th Festival of Fine Arts, Warsaw 1968, prize at the 3rd International Triennial of Realistic Painting, Sofia 1979. In addition, he participated in, among others, the III Biennale of the Young, Paris 1963 and the VIII Biennale of Sao Paulo 1965, and had numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad. He refers to realism, moreover, to old art of local Danzig origin and expression. He creates still lifes, feasts, mythological scenes and allegories archaized in this mood, but above all hieratic bourgeois portraits, often double and collective. Initially playing out his compositions in almost monochromatic color ranges, in the 1980s he lightened and diversified his palette, especially in religious compositions and a series of "carnivals." Similarly, a series of pink and brown still lifes was created in the 1990s.
