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Place of Birth: Częstochowa, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Stefan Gierowski
- Stefan Gierowski (born 21 May 1925 in Czestochowa) is a Polish painter and an avant garde artist of post-war Poland.For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions.
- He abandoned representational and realist painting midway through the 1950s and devoted himself entirely to abstract and optical effects.
- Acknowledging the concreteness of materials and colors, the artist, by his own admission, is mostly intrigued by the dual nature of light, how light is enclosed within a painting and yet somehow escapes it.
- According to the artist, each painting has a structure and a framework based on physical laws until it leaves the studio and becomes an enigma, at the disposition of the viewer, who discerns its content through a combination of emotional response and introspection.
- He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow from 1945-48 under noted artists of the time, Zbigniew Pronaszki and Karol Frycz.
- From 1946 he lived in Warsaw, and from 1962–96, he was a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Warsaw and started supervising some of the future artists such as Pawel Kowalewski in the university.
- His paintings hang in major galleries in both Europe and the United States and in many countries throughout the world.
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