Dimensions: 39 x 27.5 cm (in light of frame)
Signed, dated and inscribed p.d.: 'JDutkiewicz 40'
Biography
Painter, graphic artist, stage designer. He studied art in 1931-38 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of F.Pautsch and S.Kamocki. He took up a job in the theater in Lviv as a stage designer, after the war in 1945 he came to Katowice and became permanently associated with this city. He worked in Silesian theaters as a stage designer and designed posters. Since 1950 he was a teacher at the Katowice branch of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. For a number of years he served as president of the Katowice branch of ZPAP. He participated in many district, national and international exhibitions. He also had several individual exhibitions, including in Katowice(in 1955-1973), in Sopot, Radom and Kielce in 1969, in Koszalin 1970 and Lublin 1971. On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the artist's creative work, in November 1981, an exhibition was held at the BWA in Katowice, entitled. "Jan Dutkiewicz and Students." The main theme of his paintings was landscapes reflecting the atmosphere of mining Silesia. In the 1960s, trips to Bulgaria and Albania resulted in a series of landscapes and genre scenes there. Sensitive to color, the artist expanded his color palette in these paintings. He achieved depth, spatiality and mood, referring to his youthful fascination with Post-Impressionism.
