Stefan Krygier (1923 -1997), Judith, 1990

oil, canvas, 64.5 x 80 cm, signed p.d.: 'S. Krygier 90'; on the back is a sticker from an exhibition at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz in 1993.

EXHIBITED:
- 1991 - Stefan Krygier - painting, Baltic Gallery of Art (branch of BWA Słupsk), Ustka.
- 1993 - Stefan Krygier. Painting, graphics. On the 100th anniversary of Władysław Strzemiński's birth, PWSSP Gallery, Lodz.
- 2000 - Stefan Krygier 1923-1997, painting, graphics, sculpture, Xawery Dunikowski Museum in Królikarnia, National Museum in Warsaw.
- 2001 - Stefan Krygier, Jesus Rafael Soto, Verranneman Foundation, Belgium (during Europalia 2001 festival)
- 2011 - Stefan Krygier, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.
LITERATURE:
- Stefan Krygier. Painting, graphics. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Władysław Strzemiński, PWSSP Gallery, Lodz 1993, cat. no. 36 (il.).
- Stefan Krygier 1923 - 1997, Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, Lodz 1999, p. 112 (item 240)

One of the most important artists of the Polish postwar avant-garde. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, under Władysław Strzeminski and S. Wegner. In 1947, together with Strzeminski, he published "Seeing the Gothic". In the 1940s he belonged to the Club of Young Artists and Scientists in Warsaw, as part of which he participated in exhibitions at the Salon "Simply", "Zachęta", the Writers' Club. In 1953 he cooperated with the "St - 53" group in Katowice. From 1957 to 1997, he taught composition, printmaking and design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, where he became a professor in 1990. He also taught art history and art form analysis. He also earned a diploma in architecture from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1963. He designed and implemented many subjects in the field of
architecture and urban planning. At the same time he practiced painting, printmaking and sculpture,
wrote and published texts on art. He participates in open-air workshops in Osieki and symposia of the Golden
Cluster. Since 1975, while continuing to work at the Academy of Fine Arts, he created a studio of sculpture and composition
at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Technical University of Lodz. Initially in the 1950s.
He creates paintings inspired by the art of Egypt and Greece, as well as Tasmanian works. The 1960s the artist
devotes to matter painting, wood sculpture and graphics. Paintings appear at this time
inspired by the Jewish cemetery in Prague. The 1970s see the creation of bas-reliefs and reliefs
polychrome, cycles of "Conflicts" and Colineations". The end of the 1970s, are oil paintings ascetic
in content, referring to constructivism. This period of creativity ensured the artist a permanent
place in the history of Polish art. The 1980s and 1990s were a period of simultaneous painting. In addition to
purely geometric paintings in form, the artist painted paintings referring to iconography
and European culture.