Anna Kroplewska-Gajewska. Painting and graphics of Stanisław Borysowski
Bydgoszcz Academy of Art
Anna Kroplewska-Gajewska. Painting and graphics of Stanisław Borysowski
Stanisław Borysowski (born in 1906 in Lviv – died in 1988 in Toruń) – painter, graphics artist and teacher. From 1926 until 1933 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, under Władysław Jarocki, Ignacy Pieńkowski, Stanisław Kamocki, Teodor Axentowicz and Jan Wojnarski. In 1932, he took a trip to Italy. In 1934-1935, he lived in Paris, studying there in the branch of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts led by Józef Pankiewicz. In 1931 he took part in the exhibition of the Society of Visual Artists “Art”; became its member in 1936. Since 1945, he was an Assistant in the studio of Ignacy Pieńkowski and Zbigniew Pronaszko at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. In 1937, he was awarded the silver medal in Paris, at the International Exhibition “Art and Technology”. In 1946, he was appointed Chair of the Decorative Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (since 1953, as Professor). Periodically he was associated with the University of Fine Arts in Łódź (1950-1952) and the State University of Fine Arts (1954-1972). In 1958, he founded the Toruń Group in Toruń. He had individual exhibitions in, among others, Kraków (1935), Bydgoszcz (1948, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1976), Toruń (1949, 1953-1955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1967-1971, 1976, 1977, 1980), Sopot (1959), Wrocław (1960), Gdańsk (1964, 1967), Warsaw (1970), as well as in Norway (1964) and Germany (1966, 1973, 1976). He took part in many group exhibitions, such as the 19th Venice Biennial in 1934. In the interwar period he created landscapes, still lifes and portraits in the vein of colourism, focusing on the experiences of the Krakow school and the École de Paris. In the second half of the 20th century, after a brief stint with socialist realism, he created abstract art, innovative in the field of graphics.
30.11.2016, 6pm
admission free