Henryk Berlewi

Henryk Berlewi ( born October 20, 1894 in Warsaw; † August 2, 1967 in Paris) was a Polish painter and printmaker.

Life

His oeuvre consists of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. Berlewi was connected to the constructivist movement painter, he dealt among other things with commercial art, printing and book designs. He studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts (1904-1909), in Antwerp (1909-1910), at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris (1911-1912) and in Berlin ( 1922-1923 ). In Berlin he met El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter know. Back in Poland, he joined the constructivist group Blok. He also was a member of Young Idysz. In 1924 he exhibited his abstract paintings at the gallery Der Sturm, and published in the journal Walden Mechano - facture manifesto. Berlewi 1926 returned back to representational painting. But his abstract works, with whom he produced optical illusions that make him a father of Op Art of the 1960s, in the modern age. He participated in the relevant exhibition of Op Art, The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1965).

Henryk Berlewi met, inter alia, Kasimir Malevich. In the 1960s, he is a guest of the Academy of Arts (Berlin).

Henryk Berlewi was in close contact with Eckhard Neumann, Heinz Ohff, Peter Lufft and Eberhard Steneberg.

Works

  • Kontrasty Mechanofakturowe click
  • Mechanofaktura Blanc Rouge Noire click

Exhibitions

Collections / museums - Extracts

  • Marli Hoppe Knight
  • State Gallery of Stuttgart
  • Israel Museum
  • Berlin Gallery
  • Museum of Modern Art
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