Jerzy Nowosielski, AKT, 1995

48.5 x 67.0 cm - color serigraphy, paper

48.5 x 67 cm - dimensions of paper

signed in lead under the engraving l.: "AKT", med: XV/15, p.: Jerzy Nowosielski 95

Certificate of the Nowosielski Foundation attached to the work.

Cf. watercolor entitled Kneeling reproduced in the catalog: Jerzy Nowosielski, [published by] Starmach Gallery, Nowosielski Foundation, Cracow 2003, cat. 618.

Jerzy Nowosielski (Kraków 1923 - Kraków 2011) began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Kraków in 1940. In 1942 he stayed for less than a year in the St. John the Baptist Lavra near Lviv. There he studied the art of painting and the history of icons. After returning to Cracow in 1943, he re-established contacts with the circle of the future Cracow Group. After the war, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch (1945-1947). At the First Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow in 1948/49, he showed paintings maintained in the trend of geometric abstraction. During the years of Socialist Realism, he did not exhibit, dealing at the time with stage design and painting of churches and orthodox churches. In 1955 in Lodz he presented his first solo exhibition, in 1956 he participated in the XXVIII Venice Biennale. From 1957 to 1962 he was a teacher at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he taught at the Faculty of Painting until his retirement in 1993. In the second half of the 1950s he achieved a distinctive style of nudes, landscapes and figural scenes in interiors, which he owed to his fascination with icons and his experience with sacred painting. In 1976, he took up monumental works anew, producing mural paintings, Stations of the Cross and designs for stained glass windows in the Church of Divine Providence in Wesola near Warsaw (1976-1979). The artist was widely recognized as an authority on art rooted in spiritual values.

Jerzy Nowosielski died on February 21, 2011 in Krakow, Poland.