Andrzej MIERZEJEWSKI (1915 - 1982), Composition
oil, canvas
80 x 57 cm
On the back; on the loom "ANDRZEJ MIERZEJEWSKI", on the canvas the number "116" painted in black oil paint
Andrzej Mierzejewski (1915 - 1982) was the son of the Formist painter, the prematurely deceased Jacek Mierzejewski (1883-1925), and the older brother of Jerzy Mierzejewski (b. 1917), also a painter. He studied from 1935-1939 at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Mieczyslaw Kotarbinski. His studies were interrupted by the war, and he completed his diploma in 1947. He created outside groups, was not associated with the current artistic life, and exhibited little. In 1980 there was a large solo exhibition of his paintings at the Zachęta Gallery. In 2004, his works were exhibited in a joint exhibition by Jacek, Andrzej and Jerzy Mierzejewski at Warsaw's National Museum. In his paintings, based on a solid workshop basis, he took up existential issues, metaphorically alluding to the tragic experiences of war and pessimistic premonitions of future times. He created figurative paintings, referring in the type of deformation to the solutions of the Expressionists, the work of Picasso and other modern classics. Above the formal search, however, his art was always dominated by an individual approach to the subject, metaphor, reflection on the human condition in troubled times.
