Bottom middle date: 1970;
On the reverse: p. g.: light / frame + 2 cm / more [ in pencil]; at bottom center: JAN / BER / DYSZ / AK / acrylic and Japanese pastel / Paris / 1970 [in pencil]. lith: Doroty Folga-Januszewska, "Jan Berdyszak. Presence through Absence," Warsaw 2021, color ill. p. 49.
Jan Berdyszak studied at the Poznan State Academy of Fine Arts in the sculpture studio of Professor Basil Wojtowicz from 1952 to 1958. At the same time, he studied painting on an individual basis. Since 1965 he was a didactician at his alma mater, where he obtained the title of professor. He then taught at the Institute of Culture and Art in Zielona Gora and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. His exhibition debut took place in 1960 at the OdNowa Club in Poznań. At that time he presented prints. The artist worked in cycles that include: Double Circles (1962-71), Transparent (1970-79), Photographic Reinstallations (1970-2014), Frames of the East (1972), Silence (1972-75), Reserved Places (1973-76), States of Morality (1985-87), Beams (1977-98), Concentrating Areas (1973-80), Studies after.... (1979-83), Neither Necessity nor Possibility (1987-99), Passe-par-tout (1990-2014), Rest of the Rest (2000-2014), Après passe-par-tout (2003-2007).
In 1978, he received the Jan Cybis Award. Ten years later he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and in 2001 the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary Doctoris causa degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, and in 2004 he received the Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art for lifetime achievement. In 2008 he was awarded the gold medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis.
