Jerzy Faczyński (1917–1994), Modulor Man
Gouache on paper, 26 x 20 cm (mounted in a mat and frame, 40 x 30 cm).
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Jerzy Faczyński—painter, architect, and poet. He was born in 1917 in Rykowe, Ukraine, and died in 1994 in Liverpool. In 1936, he began his studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology. During World War II, he served on the Hungarian front and later in the Polish Air Force in Great Britain. After the war, he settled in Liverpool, where he worked as an architect and created drawings, prints, watercolors, oil paintings, stained glass, and woodcuts. Between 1940 and 1967, he participated in 9 solo exhibitions and 21 group exhibitions.
