Alfons Mazurkiewicz (1922 Düsseldorf - 1975 Wrocław), "Dusk on the Vistula River," 1970

Biography
Lifelong painter associated with the Wroclaw creative community. In 1953 he graduated from the Wroclaw State Higher School of Fine Arts, where he was a student of Emil Krcha and Eugeniusz Geppert, among others; he received his diploma in 1953. Since 1964, he worked there as an educator. He founded the Wroclaw-based "Group X." He participated in the National Exhibition of Young Visual Arts "Against War - Against Fascism" at the Warsaw Arsenal (1955). There he received an award for his painting Winter in the Cat Mountains, imbued with lyricism under the sign of Paul Klee. He created abstract compositions, in which he presented a dynamic vision of nature. His paintings are characterized by dense, almost relief-like painting matter creating wavy circles and forms filling the space of the canvas. On the 25th anniversary of the artist's death, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the BWA Awangarda Gallery and the Old Gallery in Lublin organized a large exhibition of Mazurkiewicz's works.