Dimensions: 90 x 130 cm
On the stretcher a sticker of BWA Wrocław with the description of the work: 'ATEST No. 1 (AM) 82, pos.17 | ALFONS MAZURKIEWICZ | CONSTRUCTION | 1962 | oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm unsigned | catalog - Wroclaw 1976, pos. 96'.
Exhibited
Alfons Mazurkiewicz, BWA Wroclaw, December 1976 - January 1977.
Literature
Alfons Mazukiwicz, exhibition catalog, BWA Wroclaw, ed. by Mariusz Hermansdorfer, Wroclaw 1976, cat. no. 96
Biography
Lifelong painter associated with the Wroclaw creative community. In 1953 he graduated from the Wroclaw State Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Emil Krcha and Eugeniusz Geppert, among others; he received his diploma in 1953. From 1964 he worked there as an educator. He founded the Wroclaw-based "Group X." He participated in the National Exhibition of Young Visual Arts "Against War - Against Fascism" at the Warsaw Arsenal (1955). There he received an award for his painting Winter in the Cat Mountains, imbued with lyricism under the sign of Paul Klee. He created abstract compositions, in which he presented a dynamic vision of nature. His paintings are characterized by dense, almost relief-like painting matter forming wavy circles and forms filling the space of the canvas. On the 25th anniversary of the artist's death, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the BWA Awangarda Gallery and the Old Gallery in Lublin organized a large exhibition of Mazurkiewicz's works.
