Ryszard Stryjec "Tree"
gypsum engraving on paper
41/30 cm
certificate of authenticity
Ryszard Stryjec was born in 1932 in Vilnius. After the war, he moved to the Tricity, where he graduated from the State Higher School of Fine Arts (formerly known as the Academy of Fine Arts) in the studio of Krystyna Lada-Studnicka. From 1952 to 1958, he continued his studies after graduating from the High School of Arts, at the Academy of Fine Arts, first in Sopot, then in Gdansk. Painting in the studios of Professor Stanislaw Teisseyre´ and Krystyna Lada-Studnicka, and graphic design under Professor Zygmunt Karolak. In the years 1955 -1962 he was associated with the ceramic group " Kadyny" - led by Hanna Żuławska. Since 1956 he lived in a house at the Gdańsk Fish Market, where a commemorative plaque dedicated to the artist is now embedded. He died in Gdansk in 1997, at the age of 65. Stryjec practiced painting, sculpture and ceramics, but primarily worked in printmaking. He created several thousand works. An absolute master of small graphic forms, such as ex libris. He has been called the Danzig Dürer. A characteristic feature of his work was the weaving of fantastic, fairy-tale and biblical characters into Danzig motifs. The artist's works have been presented at numerous group and individual exhibitions at home and abroad, including in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, and are in many private collections in the Triad. He was closely associated with the Triada Gallery throughout the 1990s until his death. In 1995, an exhibition of his graphic works took place at the Sopot Triad. After his death there was an exhibition at the National Museum in Zielona Brama , which juxtaposed his works with A. Dürer and G. Grass.
