Bronislaw Kierzkowski, COMPOSITION 39, 1976

40,8 x 55,4cm - gouache, black paper signed on the reverse middle: B. KIERZKOWSKI | 1976 | 39 [in circle].

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Bronislaw Kierzkowski (Lodz, August 28, 1924 - Warsaw, May 21, 1993) studied from 1946 to 1947 at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Lodz under the direction of Władysław Strzeminski. He continued his studies at an academy of the same type in Gdansk under Juliusz Studnicki (1948-1950), and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Eugeniusz Eibisch (1951-1955). He received his diploma from this academy in 1956, and taught there from 1962-1963, and then at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (1963-1978). Since 1978, he was employed again at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and ran a drawing studio there. He received the title of professor in 1987 and retired in 1988. In the first period of his career, he painted synthetic landscapes and also created collages, in which he crossed the border of abstraction at the earliest. After experimenting with informel and matter painting, from around 1957 he created plaster reliefs, which are most characteristic of him. He used the method of embedding metal elements in the cooling gypsum mass - finished objects, parts of mechanisms, waste materials such as shavings or sheet metal cuttings, grids, wires, etc. He thus formed assemblages with a surprisingly - for the "trash" origin of the components - noble expression. In the 1960s, the artist expanded his interests to monumental and spatial forms, sometimes moving, presenting works of this type at the 1st Biennial of Spatial Forms in Elblag (1965), the 1st Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Puławy (1966), the 3rd Golden Grape Symposium in Zielona Góra (1967). At the last of these events he presented an environment. In later years, he returned to textural solutions on the plane, which he developed in the series "Textures". In the 1960s he was associated with the Krzywe Koło Gallery in Warsaw, where he exhibited many times. He also participated in important group exhibitions, such as the Third Exhibition of Modern Art, Warsaw 1959; the First Biennale of the Young, Paris 1959; "The Art of Assamblage" and "Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, New York 1961. he retired in 1988. In the first period of his career, he painted synthetic landscapes and also created collages, in which he crossed the border of abstraction at the earliest. After experimenting with informel and matter painting, from around 1957 he created plaster reliefs, which are most characteristic for him.