Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz (1942-2011), Warsaw Mermaid, 1978

Dimensions: 39 x 53 (with frame). Signature p.d., dedication p.d. (photo)

Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz (1942-2011). From 1961-66 he studied architecture at the Wroclaw University of Technology. Then he studied graphic design and poster art at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw under Stanisław Dawski and Maciej Urbaniec (graduated in 1972) In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was associated with student culture. In the 1970s, he served as artistic director of the Ossolineum Publishing House. In 1982-85, he led the Workshop Graphics Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Since 1995, he has created the Copperplate House in Wroclaw. In 1998 he returned to work at the Academy of Fine Arts.