Janusz KARBOWNICZEK (b. 1950), "Still Life 3. Self-portrait," 1980

watercolor, ink, pencil, paper, 59 x 90 cm,
Signed and titled p.g.: Martwa natura 3 / Karbowniczek 80.
The above painting was obtained by the present owners directly from Janusz Karbowniczek.

Painter, draughtsman, associated with the Silesian artistic community. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Department of Graphics in Katowice, where in 1975 he defended his diploma in the Poster Studio of Prof. Tadeusz Grabowski and the Book Studio of Prof. Stanislaw Kluska. Since 1977 he has been working at the same university, where he is a professor. He runs the Author's Drawing Studio in the Department of Painting. The artist practices painting, drawing and graphic design. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 300 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He has won numerous awards and prizes. In his painting work as a means of expression he often uses sketchiness, suggestion, which he leaves to the viewer to elaborate.