Henryk Stażewski

(1894-1988 Warsaw)

Original Hand signed and dated  by Artist (This is overflow from the Edition that did not get numbered)

 Was a special Edition "Artist of the world" for the German Lufthansa Airline 1985 for their first class passengers , came in a folding Card with artist info at the time(not included with auction,but see info in last photo)

Publisher: Meissner Edition,Hamburg

Henryk Stażewski (1894-1988) was a Polish painter, considered to be a pioneer of the classical avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. He was a foremost representative of the Constructivist movement, as well as the co-creator of the Geometric Abstract art movement.He was a leading European representative of geometric abstraction painting. Graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, he was among the key members of pre-war avant-garde collectives such as Blok, Praesens or a.r. as well as a member of the international groups Cercle et Carré and Abstraction-Création. He was the organiser of Kazimir Malevich’s first exhibition outside Russia at the Polonia Hotel in Warsaw (1927). With Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński, he co-created the international collection of contemporary art that gave rise to the founding of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (1931). After the war, he became associated with the Crooked Circle Gallery community as well as with young artists and critics with whom, in 1966, he founded the Foksal Gallery. He participated in artistic open-airs and biennials (Wrocław ’70, the Elbląg Biennale of Spatial Forms). He was the initiator of an exchange between Polish and US artists, crowned with an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1982). Lived 1894–1988.

Image size: 4" x 4"   (10,0 x 10,0 cm)

Paper size: 6" x 5.5" (15,0 x 14,0 cm)

very good condition, never framed,

Please consider the Photo's of the  Artwork as part of the description.

Please note that there sometimes can be a slight color variation from Photo to actual art work

 

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