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
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
- Marli Hoppe Ritter Collection
- State Gallery Stuttgart
- Israel Museum
- Berlinische Galerie
- Museum of Modern Art
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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Henryk Berlewi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henryk Berlewi Archives
- Culture.pl Irena Kossowska: Henryk Berlewi , August 2002 (Polish)
personal data | |
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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 |