Dimensions: 62 x 70 cm
Signed lower left: 'Borysowski'
A label from the framing company on the reverse, and inscribed on the reverse of the canvas: 'Borysowski'
Biography
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Ignacy Pieńkowski and Teodor Axentowicz. He received his diploma in 1931. He continued his studies under Józef Pankiewicz in Paris from 1934 to 1935. During the interwar period, he exhibited at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków and at the Institute for the Promotion of Art in Warsaw. Abroad, he exhibited in Venice, Pittsburgh, Paris, and New York. After the war, he took over the Chair of Painting and the Department of Figurative Composition—which placed great emphasis on in-depth studies from life—at the University of Toruń. He was subsequently associated with the artistic community in Łódź. From 1953, he taught at the Department of Painting at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (now the Academy of Fine Arts).
