Antoni Michalak (1899 Kozłów Szlachecki - 1975 Kazimierz Dolny), Portrait of painter Bernard Frydrysiak, 1942
Oil on canvas, dimensions 58.0 x 51.0 cm, frame dimensions 76.5 x 70.0 cm.
Signed and dated p.d.: Antoni Michalak 1942
On the frame a plaque with the inscription: Antoni Michalak / 1902-1975 / Portrait of the painter B. Frydrysiak
Bernard Frydrysiak (1908 Warsaw - 1970 New York) - Polish painter and printmaker since 1949 working in New York.
The works will be on display on 10.12.2022 (Saturday) from 11.00 - 17.00 at the Antiquarian Art Gallery at 25 Emilia Plater Street, 00-688 Warsaw.
Biography
Antoni Michalak (1899 Kozłów Szlachecki - 1975 Kazimierz Dolny) - painter of sacred art, portraitist and draughtsman. He began his drawing studies in 1915 in Odessa. His patrons were Russian princesses - Dolgorukova and Shcherbatova. After World War I, after returning to Poland, he continued his studies with Jan Kauzik and Miłosz Kotarbiński at the Warsaw Drawing School. In the period 1919-1925 he studied (with a break in 1920-1922 for service in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War) at the School of Fine Arts under Milosz Kotarbinski, Konrad Krzyzanowski and Tadeusz Pruszkowski. In 1925 he went to Paris on a one-year scholarship. Since 1939, he settled permanently in Kazimierz Dolny. After the war, he was a professor of drawing, painting and visual arts techniques at the Catholic University of Lublin for more than twenty years. He practiced religious, portrait and wall painting. He participated in exhibitions in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Great Britain.
