Jan Hrynkowski, Cityscape, 1954
Description
Oil on panel, signed lower right: "j.hrynkowski 1954".
Framed: 34,5x30 cm.
Jan Piotr Hrynkowski (Żelechów near Lviv 1891 - 1971 Cracow) - Polish painted, engraver and stage designer. He studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts painting with Józef Pankiewicz and sculpture with Konstanty Laszczka, he received his diploma in 1913. In 1914 he joined the 1st Polish Legions Brigade, he was assigned to the 4th company of 1 battalion 1 Infantry Regiment and then in the 1st Artillery Regiment. After moving to the reserve, he joined a group of Cracow formists. From 1921, for five years, he stayed in Paris, studying with André Lothe. After returning to Crakow, he was one of the founders of the Jednoróg group. From 1926 he worked as a set designer at the theatre of Juliusz Słowacki in Crakow, from 1942 associated with the Plastykas operatic theater Brzal in acting in Café. In 1944 he managed to get to Warsaw and fought in the Warsaw Uprising in the ranks of the Zośka Battalion. After 1945, he was a set designer at the Silesian Theater of Stanisław Wyspiański, from 1952 to 1955 at the Old Theater in Krakow, and from 1955 to 1963 at the Theater Zagłębie in Sosnowiec.
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