Technique: gaufrage, paper
Dimensions: 16.5 x 16.5 cm
Signed on back: HStażewski 1960
Additional charges:+5% / 3% Droit de suite
The painting is framed.
Provenance: Galerie Chalette, private collection USA
Biography:
Born January 9, 1894 in Warsaw, died June 10, 1988 in Warsaw, Poland.
Painter, pioneer of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, representative of constructivism, co-founder of the geometric abstraction trend of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Author of relief compositions, designer of interiors, stage decorations and posters.
He studied art from 1913 to 1919 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in the studio of Stanislaw Lentz. He was associated with the first Polish avant-garde grouping founded in 1917, called Polish Expressionists, and renamed Formists in 1919. He made his debut in 1920, showing his works together with the Formists at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. In 1923, he participated in the Exhibition of New Art in Vilnius and the International Exhibition of New Art in Lodz, both of which initiated the Constructivist movement in Poland. He was a founding member of the Cubist, Constructivist and Suprematist group "Blok" (1924-1026), as well as the groupings that extended the programmatic assumptions of Blok - Praesens (1926-1929) and a.r. (1829-1936). Together with Edward Krasinski and Tadeusz Kantor, among others, he was a co-founder of Warsaw's Foksal Gallery.
He participated in many international exhibitions, including the First International Exhibition of Modern Architecture (Warsaw, 1926), the Exhibition of Theater Art (Paris, 1926), Machine Age Exposition (New York, 1927) and Konstruktivisten (Basel, 1937).
His works are in the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Zachęta Gallery, the Art Museum in Lodz, among others.
