Jerzy Tchórzewski

Jerzy Tchórzewski (born April 24, 1928 in Siedlce , † December 25, 1999 in Warsaw ) was a Polish painter, graphic artist and art teacher.

Tchórzewski was a soldier in the Polish Home Army from 1943 to 1944 . From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow . During this time he joined the avant-garde Grupa Młodych Plastyków , which was established in 1957 as Grupa Krakowska II in the tradition of Grupa Krakowska from the 1930s . As a painter he made his debut at the First Exhibition of Modern Art 1948-1949 in Krakow.

After graduating, he moved to Warsaw. There he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1954 , where he ran a painting studio at the Faculty of Graphics and held a professorship from 1987 to 1998. After an early surrealist phase in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he began to paint abstract visions of cosmic catastrophes, setting stars and erupting volcanoes from 1955. From 1959 he also worked with the surrealist international group of artists Phases . At the same time, he also created monotypes since the 1940s and linocuts since the 1960s. In the late 1970s he turned to religious subjects and became one of the most important exponents of Polish sacred painting of the time.

Tchórzewski's works have been shown at national and international exhibitions, including the 5th and 8th Art Biennials in Sao Paulo (1959 and 1965) and the 34th Biennale di Venezia (1968). In 1981 he received the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Prize of Art Critics, the Solidarnośc Culture Prize in 1985, the Jan Cybis Prize in 1986 and the Herder Prize in 1993 .

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SURNAME	Tchórzewski, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish painter, graphic artist and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Siedlce
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1999
Place of death	Warsaw