Oil on canvas. Certificate of authenticity included.
Dimensions: 100x70 cm
Henryk Strumiłło (Vilnius 1934 – 2001 Łódź) – Polish painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Strumiłło settled in Łódź in 1947. He initially studied architecture, then enrolled in Roman Modzelewski’s studio at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź, graduating in 1961. Starting in 1969, together with Romana Hałat, Aleksander Hałat, Ryszard Hunger, Andrzej Jocz, Zbigniew Kosiński, Andrzej Nawrot, Konrad Frejdlich, and Antoni Szram, he co-founded the artistic group Konkret. In 1985, he became head of the Department of General Art Education at the Institute of Industrial Design; subsequently, in 1990, he became associate dean of the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, in 1993 he became dean, and in 1999 vice dean once again. He died five days before the opening of an exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of his pedagogical and artistic work at the Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź. Strumiłło practiced abstract painting—he was inspired by the microcosm. In the 1960s, he created paintings in the Informel style. In the late 1960s, he employed jagged forms to create dramatic tension. In addition, several times a year he would travel to the mountains to paint mountain landscapes, which he rendered in shades of brown, gray, and blue. He depicted these scenes using watercolors, gouache, and sketches. In total, he painted over 1,500 works. Strumiłło’s works were featured in a total of 86 exhibitions. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Gold Cross of Merit for his teaching work at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź (1985) and the 50th-anniversary medal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (1996).
