GRAND PRIX OF FRANCISZKA EIBISCH FOUNDATION 2016
Honourable mention in Grand Prix of Franciszka Eibisch Foundation :)
I invite you to a post-competition exhibition, for which you can watch my painting entitled Fighting man no. 39 :)
VERNISSAGE: 3rd December 2016, 4.00 PM
EXHIBITION: 3rd-15th December 2016
Katarzyna Napiórkowska Gallery
ul. Świętokrzyska 32
00-116 Warsaw
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On 3 December 2016 in Warsaw, the results of the competition for Grand Prix of the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation were announced. It is one of the most significant painting competitions in Poland. Every year, several hundred young artists from art schools all over Poland take part in it. The competition exhibition was prepared in the Katarzyna Napiórkowska Art Gallery. This year, Grand Prix was awarded ex aequo to Lena Achtelik (Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice) and Magdalena Dreścik (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw). Eight honorary distinctions were also awarded to the following artists: Emilia Dragosz (Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków), Marta Duda (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk), Iwona Gabryś (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Faculty of Arts), Katarzyna Karpowicz (Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków), Marcin Krawczyk (University of the Arts in Poznań), Joanna Nowińska (Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław), Maria Szachnowska (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk), Małgorzata Wojciechowska- Stępień (Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź). The Foundation was established by the will of professor Eugeniusz Eibisch (1896-1987), an outstanding painter and colourist, a long-time professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and in Warsaw, winner of the Guggenheim Prize. The Foundation, acting pro bono, organises an annual competition for young painters. The competition is open to graduates up to ten years after the Master's degree and students of the last year of Polish art schools with higher education accreditation (the first and second year of graduate studies). Candidates are submitted by the Academies of Fine Arts and other universities which educate in the field of painting, as well as by Associations and Unions of Creators. Individual applications are also accepted.
In the competition, Grand Prix together with a cash prize is awarded as well as Honorary Distinctions. The ceremonial announcement of results takes place each year on 3 December (the name day of Franciszka, to honour the wife of professor Eugeniusz Eibisch). The competition exhibition takes place in the Katarzyna Napiórkowska Art Gallery at Świętokrzyska 32 in Warsaw. It is open until 15 December this year. Selected works are also presented in the Katarzyna Napiórkowska Art Gallery in Brussels.
EUGENIUSZ EIBISCH (1896-1987) – an outstanding painter, co-creator of the colourism trend in Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under the supervision of Jacek Malczewski and Wojciech Weiss. From 1922 he stayed in Paris, where he created in the Ecole de Paris circle. He was friends, among others, with Chaim Soutine, a Nobel laureate Roger Martin du Gard, whom he inspired to create the literary character of Serge in the novel The Thibaults. He exhibited his paintings in galleries which presented Amadeo Modigliani, and collaborated with a famous marchand Zborowski and the Bernheim Gallery. From 1945 he was a vice-chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. From 1949 to 1969 he was the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Prize. His works can be found in the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Poznań, the National Museum in Wrocław and the National Museum in Kraków.
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