Henryk Stażewski, photo nieznany, ok. 1960, Public domain
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Henryk Stażewski, photo nieznany, ok. 1960, Public domain
License: public domain, Source: Wikimedia Commons, License terms and conditions

Henryk Stażewski

First name:

Henryk

Last Name:

Stażewski

Parents:

Rafał

Date of birth:

09-01-1894

Place of birth:

Warszawa

Date of death:

10-06-1988

Place od death:

Warszawa

Age:

Profession:

painter, painter

Honours and awards:

Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej (1955), Złoty Krzyż Zasługi (1955), Odznaka tytułu honorowego „Zasłużony dla Kultury Narodowej” (1987)

Biography:

Henryk Stażewski (1894-1988), born in Warsaw, painter, representative of Constructivism. Between 1913 and 1919, he studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in the atelier of Stanisław Lentz. He was associated with an avant-garde group called the Polish Expressionists, renamed the Formists in 1919. He made his debut in 1920 together with the Formists at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. He was one of the founders of the Cubist, Constructivist and Suprematist group 'Blok', as well as the Praesens and a.r. groups.