Background
Henryk Stazewski was born on January 9, 1894, in Warsaw, Poland.
Henryk Stazewski was born on January 9, 1894, in Warsaw, Poland.
Henryk was educated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
During the early 1920s, he painted highly simplified, nearly monochrome still lifes. In 1924 he abandoned subject matter for a completely abstract style based on geometric shapes and strong vertical and horizontal lines. He typically used pale colours or entirely white, black, or gray designs. Beginning in the 1920s, Stażewski frequently traveled to Paris, where he met the Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian and joined the Cercle et Carré (“Circle and Square”) and Abstraction-Création groups of abstract artists.
Stażewski reintroduced representation into his paintings in 1934, and he subsequently experimented with various approaches to landscapes and portraits. Although most of his prewar works were destroyed during World War II, his large one-man show in Warsaw in 1955 helped to revive both Polish art and his own artistic career. Beginning in 1957, he once again returned to a spare and geometric abstract style, which he employed in reliefs as well as paintings. He died on January 9, 1894 in Warsaw, Poland.
1-1979
197947-1972
197258-1977
1977Composition no. 3
1974Composition no. 13
Composition No. 21
1973Composition No. 33
1975Grey-White Relief #2
1976Kompozycja
1976Kompozycja
1979Labirynt nr. 47
1977Nr. 123
1976Relief
1972Relief
1976Relief
1979Relief
1979Relief no. 11
1973Relief nr. 12
1963Relief nr. 18
1967Untitled
1966Stażewski was a founding member of three Polish artist groups: Blok, Praesens, and a.r..