Fijałkowski Stanisław

A painter and graphic designer.
He was born in 1922 in Zdołbunów, Volhynia. In 1951 he graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Łódź (now Fine Arts Academy), where he studied under W. Strzemiński’s direction. After graduation he worked at this school till 1993. Fijałkowski was inspired by Kazimierz Malewicz’s works of art, surrealists as well as Wassily Kandinski, whose treatise - "Über das Geistige in der Kunst" - he translated into Polish in 1997. Most of his paintings and engravings are raw compositions with solid background. Till the middle of the 1950s he tookpart in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, receiving prizes and awards. The artist represented Poland at the Biennale in Sao Paulo (1969) and Venice (1972). He is, among other things, the C. K. Norwid and J.Cybis prizes winner.