Jerzy NOWOSIELSKI (1923-2011), Bogurodzica with the Child; 2019

digigraphie on paper, light p-p 59 x 47; ed 17/19/2019
Signed on reverse: , "Mother of God with Child"/ ed 17/19/2019
Attached to the work is a certificate of authenticity signed by the pastor of the Orthodox Parish of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God in Cracow, Fr. Jaroslaw Antosiuk

Born in 1923 in Cracow as the son of Anna, a Pole with German roots, and Stefan, a Lemko. Polish painter, illustrator, stage designer, philosopher and Orthodox theologian. Considered one of the most prominent contemporary artists of icons, depicted in metaphysical figural compositions and landscapes. He participated in underground artistic life. In 1945, he took up studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Eugeniusz Eibisch. A year later he interrupted his studies. He received his diploma in 1945 after passing the exam externally. At that time, he joined Tadeusz Kantor's circle of acolytes, submitting an annex to the Group of Young Visual Artists transformed during the "thaw" into the Second Cracow Group. In 1957, he became a lecturer at the State Higher School of Visual Arts (now the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz),
Since 1976 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jerzy Nowosielski's works can be found in all important museum collections of contemporary art in Poland and also in many private collections in Poland and abroad.
"I entered my conscious painting with two doors: one was the consciousness of modern painting, the other was the consciousness of icons, the philosophy and theology of icons."
Jerzy Nowosielski