Adam Gerżabek

Adam Gerżabek (born August 28, 1898 in Jasło , † February 7, 1965 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter and art critic.

Life

Gerżabek studied painting from 1921 to 1926 with Józef Mehoffer at the Cracow Academy of Art and from 1926/27 with Józef Pankiewicz at the Paris branch of this university. During his time in Paris he also took lessons in mosaic and fresco painting with Henri-Marcel Magne at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers . In 1930 he returned to Krakow. Gerżabek was a member of the "Zwornik" group with whom he exhibited his works. In 1936 he moved to Warsaw to teach at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts (Polish: "Miejska Szkoła Sztuk Zdobniczych"). During the Warsaw Uprising , his studio and works stored there were destroyed. After the Second World War he was appointed professor at the Warsaw Art Academy . In 1949/50 he was dean of the painting faculty at the Art Academy in Poznan . From 1953 he was a professor of architecture at the Danzig Technical University .

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Gerżabek was a versatile artist. He painted, drew, created mosaics and glass works and worked as a sculptor. The motifs in his painting were landscapes, still lifes and portraits. His pictures are influenced by the Polish colourist Józef Pankiewicz and the French post-impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard . He made stained glass in various Polish and European churches. He was also active as an art critic. His pictures have been shown at exhibitions in Poland as well as Paris and New York . Posthumously, exhibitions were organized in his honor in Sopot (1965) and Olsztyn (1966). His paintings are in the possession of the Polish National Museums in Gdansk , Cracow and Warsaw .

literature

• Tomasz Adam Pruszak, Malarstwo polskie ze zbiorow Narodowego Banku Polskiego ( Polish Paintings in the Collection of the National Bank of Poland ), NBP - National Bank Poland (Ed.), Rosikon Press Verlag, ISBN 978-83-88848-69-8 , Warsaw 2009, pp. 48 and 86f.