format: 30x24cm framed,oil on cardboard,1930s,sig.d.l.
Stanislaw Borysowski studied in 1926-31 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under the direction of W.Jarocki, I.Pienkowski and S.Kamocki. In 1932 he was on a scholarship from the National Culture Fund in Italy. In the same year he became a member of the "Art" Society. In 1933-34 he continued his studies at the Paris Branch of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under J.Pankiewicz. During the Second World War he was in Lviv, he was a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine and the manager of a cooperative that provided employment and therefore survival opportunities for Polish artists staying there. From 1946 he was a professor and head of the Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and in 1954-72 he simultaneously taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, where he served as dean of the Painting Department from 1955 to 1964. Co-founder of the Torun Group in 1958, he remained its undisputed leader throughout the group's activities, i.e. until 1978. The artist's oeuvre developed simultaneously in the fields of painting (including wall painting) and printmaking (especially color lithography and linocut). His painting, in its beginnings marked by the influence of the Pankiewicz school, was subject to stylistic transformations over the years, the most significant of which occurred around 1956. The artist moved away from figuration and began to create abstract compositions, which, however, often included object suggestions. The paintings were built from clearly defined, flat fields, varied in color, value and texture, entering each other in dynamic configurations, making the works full of movement, tension, sometimes decorative.
