Jerzy marek biography examples
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Jerzy Hanusek: Short Biography of Jerzy Bereś (2007)
(Text was published in exhibition catalogue: Jerzy Bereś. Art Bends Life, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, 12.06-0.09.2007)
Jerzy Bereś was born in Nowy Sącz in 1930. He was nine at the time that the war broke out. The shock he experienced caused by the German and Soviet invasion of Poland was to cast a shadow over the rest of his life. Half a century later, Bereś admitted that he had contemplated suicide ever since.
During 1950-1955, Bereś studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Xawery Dunikowski (1875-1964), one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 20′ century—a sculptor of international fame. In particular, his very original, simple sculptures from 1904-1906 have gained wide acclaim, and have been considered one of the most interesting phenomena of European art of the early 20th century. During WWII, Dunikowski spent nearly five years as a prisoner of the Auschwitz concentrati
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For the clerics, not only the raw living conditions, but also the intense system of punishments, were extremely oppressive. One also should consider the poor nutrition. Three meals a day, small portions, and a repetitive menu. If a meat dish ever appeared on the table it was sausages, and with premeditation, it would be served on Fridays when the clerics would be abstaining from meat products. It was known that they would not eat and they were punished for it. Popiełuszko once had to endure a thirty kilometre march. And when the soldiers were late returning from exercises, the food was standing cold on the table and that’s how they would have to eat it. All of this had a negativ effect on the health of the divinity graduates.
Likewise, there was hard labour, often beyond their strength. For example, the clerics were assigned to construction work. One of them remembers, ‘We were extremely tired, could not sleep at night because tanks were on the move and the mosquitoes
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JERZY MAREK Artist Painter: Biography - Auction prices - Originals & Prints for sale - Google Gallery of Jerzy Marek paintings - Jerzy Marek on Art UK
Hugely popular Polish naive painter of cool cats and other lovable animals
JERZY MAREK (1925 – 2014) was born in Poland in 1925 and showed early promise in both art and woodcarving. But the outbreak of World War II in 1939 when he was only 14 put a complete hold on his artistic career for many years. In fact, he ended the War with the British Army in Italy and finally settled in the UK in 1948. For the next many years, Jerzy pursued a successful career as a civil engineer and bridge designer but the call of art was always there despite a complete lack of any formal artistic education. He started painting in oils in 1970 and initially spent much of his leisure time encouraging other artists locally in the Preston area where he eventually found himself. This group became known as the “Marek Circle” and even included his mother-