Ryszard Grzyb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Polish painter
Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1956
Place of Birth: Sosnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Ryszard Grzyb
- Ryszard Henryk Grzyb (born 17 July 1956 in Sosnowiec), a Polish painter, poet and graphic designer. Born to a working-class family, Ryszard Henryk Grzyb gained his secondary education at the State High School of Fine Arts in Katowice in the years 1971-1976.
- In 1976-79, he was a student of Zbigniew Karpinski at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.
- Subsequently, he moved to the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw to study under Rajmund Ziemski's tutelage.
- There he met Pawel Kowalewski, Jaroslaw Modzelewski, Wlodzimierz Pawlak, Marek Sobczyk and Ryszard Wozniak, who formed together an artists group "Gruppa" in 1982.
- Grzyb was also a co-founder and editor of Gruppa's magazine Oj dobrze juz (All Right, Then).
- He graduated with honours on 8 June 1981. In the years 1983-1987, Grzyb painted mostly so called papers, i.e.
- large tempera compositions on cardboard.
- In 1987, the artist changed his technique and gradually switched from tempera to oil on canvas.
- His work is characterised by jovial colours and broad lines painted around the edges of various objects. While studying in Warsaw, Ryszard Henryk Grzyb was engrossed in poetry, besides painting.
- His poems were published in Nowy Wyraz magazine, issue 1980/4 and 1981/1, and in Miesiecznik Literacki monthly, issue 1981/7. His paintings can be found in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Cracow and Poznan, as well as in the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, in District Museums in Katowice, Bytom, Torun, Bydgoszcz and Olsztyn, plus in private collections in Poland and abroad. In 2004, he started a multimedia project Zdania napowietrzne (Air-borne sentences), which is a collection of short poetic sentences.
- The author calls them “ludicrous haiku” and puts them in a context that is completely disconnected from poetic experiments: on billboards, postcards, pencils, neon signs and information plates.
- Entering a space reserved for a different type of communication, the artist enhances the poems’ message and somehow creates suspense. In 2010, Ryszard Henryk Grzyb won Jan Cybis Award.
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