Henryk Berlewi

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Henryk Berlewi

Henryk Berlewi (born October 20, 1894 in Warsaw , † August 2, 1967 in Paris ) was a Polish painter and graphic artist.

Life

His oeuvre consists of paintings, drawings, graphics and sculptures. Berlewi was a painter associated with the Constructivist movement ; he dealt with, among other things, commercial graphics, print and book designs. He studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts (1904–1909), in Antwerp (1909–1910), at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1911–1912) and in Berlin (1922–1923). In Berlin he met El Lissitzky , Theo van Doesburg , Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter . Back in Poland, he joined the constructivist group Blok . He was also a member of Jung Idysz . In 1924 he exhibited his abstract painting in the gallery Der Sturm and published the Mechano-Faktur Manifesto in Walden's magazine . Berlewi returned to representational painting in 1926. But his abstract works, with which he created optical illusions, make him a father of Op Art of the 1960s in the modern age. He participated in the definitive Op Art exhibition, The Responsive Eye , at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1965).

Henryk Berlewi meets Kasimir Malewitsch, among others . In the 1960s he is a guest at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) .

Henryk Berlewi was in close contact with Eckhard Neumann , Heinz Ohff , Peter Lufft and Eberhard Steneberg .

Works

  • Contrasty Mechanofakturowe [1]
  • Mechanofaktura Blanc-Rouge-Noire [2]

Exhibitions

  • 1924: Exhibition in the “Der Sturm” gallery, Berlin. Publication of the Mechano-Faktur manifesto in the magazine " Der Sturm ".
  • 1961: Participation in the exhibition “Der Sturm” - Herwarth Walden and the European Avantgarde Berlin (1912–1932). National Gallery in Charlottenburg Palace , Berlin.
  • 1962: Participation in the exhibition "Scriptural Painting", Haus am Waldsee , Berlin.
  • 1963: Solo exhibition, exclusively from Mechano-fakturen, gallery “situations 60”, Berlin
  • 1963: Participation in the exhibition "Formes Mathématiques - Peintres et Sculpteurs", Palais de la Découverte, Grand Palais, Paris.
  • 1964: Henryk Berlewi retrospective exhibition at the Institut Francais, organized by the Senator for Science and Art. Berlin, in the Maison de France
  • 2006: Graphic Works of the Avant-Garde 1918–1934, From the Merrill C. Berman Collection, Langen Foundation
  • 2006: Sprengel Museum : The Avant-garde Period, From the collections of the Sztuki Museum, Łódź June 11th to September 17th, 2006
  • 2010: Exhibition as part of the STURM Symposium at the Brandenburg Gate Foundation in Berlin
  • 2012: Henryk Berlewi Exhibition of the Henryk Berlewi Archives in preparation

Collections / Museums - Excerpts

literature

  • Henryk Berlewi: Mechano-facture . In: Der Sturm , third quarterly issue (September), Berlin 1924.
  • Henryk Berlewi / Olszewski, Andrzej K. 1968
  • Retrospective exhibition H. Berlewi / Institut Français, Berlin / West 1964
  • Mechano-invoices by Henryk Berlewi / Situations 60 Gallery, Berlin / West 1963
  • Larionov: Gontcharova, exhibition July - September 1961; Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1961
  • H. Berlewi: portretten en maskers / Toussaint van Boelaere, FV
  • Marek Bartelik: Early Polish Modern Art Manchester University Press, 2005

In December 2012 Moonblinx Publishing will publish the book "Edward Hartwig - Poetic Rebel" ( ISBN 978-3-941614-06-2 ), edited by Sebastian Gaiser & Karoline von Roques. The title of the book shows u. a. Recordings by Henryk Berlewi in Warsaw.

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personal data
SURNAME Berlewi, Henryk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1967
Place of death Paris