Henryk Berlewi
(Warsaw 20 October 1894 - 2 August 1967 Paris)
Painter, graphic designer, typographer and critic, Henryk Berlewi was a major figure in constructivist art in Poland in the 1920s. He studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1904-1909), Antwerp (1909-1910) and Paris (1911-1912). In 1913, Berlewi went back to Warsaw to pursued his studies at the School of Design. During World War I, he discovered Futurism and Dadaism. In 1921, he met El Lissitzky and followed him to Berlin, where he abandoned figurative art for pure constructivist abstraction. In 1924, Berlewi published his manifest, Mechano-Faktura, in the review Der Sturm. His first solo exhibition was held at the Austro-Daimler automobile showroom in Warsaw in 1924. In 1928, Berlewi moved to Paris and returned to figuration.
In 1957, the exhibition on the precursors of abstract art in Poland at the Galerie Denise René in Paris prompted him to resume his research on Mechano-Faktura which is today viewed as one of the key sources of Op art.
"Self-Portrait", 1911, pencil on paper, 29 x 22 cm (11 7/16 x 8 11/16 in), private collection
"Nude", c. 1920, watercolour, charcoal on paper, 83 x 46 cm (32 11/16 x 18 1/8 in), private collection
"Cypresses and Clouds", 1929, watercolour, gouache on paper, 34 x 40 cm, private collection
"Portrait of the Artist's Mother", 1956, oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm, private collection
"Mechano-Facture", 1924 (recreated 1963), oil on plywood, 105 x 73 cm, private collection
"Woman with Red Lips", 1937, pastel on cardboard, 63 x 48 cm, private collection
"Capsicum", 1949, oil on canvas, 29 x 64 cm, private collection
"Circle and Square in Space", 1923, gouache, 71 x 53 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Girl with a Cigarette", c. 1928-39, pastel on paper, 49.5 x 37.5 cm, private collection
Artist’s paintings in: malarze.com
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