The works Stefan Krygier They are paintings that address problems related to the theory of seeing, in which the artist simultaneously records the local color, the color of the interior of the eye, and the secondary images.
Born in Łódź in 1923, where he died in 1997. He studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts (now Władyslaw Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts) in the same city between 1946 and 1951, and in the Department of Architecture of the Polytechnic de Warsaw between 1959 1963 y.
He was a student, collaborator (in exhibition projects) and at the time, also a friend, of the prominent Polish artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski.
Like Strzemiński, Krygier saw his work as the result of intellectual reflection and formal experimentation.
After graduating from the Academy, in the 1950s and early 1960s, he created oil paintings, tempera, and gouache paintings inspired by ancient Egyptian and Greek art.
After the figurative period, he set out, in 1963-4, to create a series of painting-reliefs, graphic works and bas-reliefs, whose main focus was structural exploration.
At that time, he built the structure of his compositions from recurring geometric shapes, especially the arch.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, he was active in shaping the Polisch art scene, participating in many meetings, open-air workshops, and symposiums of artists, scholars, and art theorists, and in the art events prepared by Poles.
As an architect, he designed several urbanizations of Łódź, many public buildings and urban planning arrangements. His extensive and original work has secured him a place in the history of modern Polish art. As a teacher of the Academy of Fine Arts de Łódź, embodied the best of their traditions and promoted the ideas and teaching methods of Włady-sław Strzemiński, which can still be considered modern today.
Throughout his life he exhibited his works in many museums and galleries in Poland, and also in England, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland y Belgium. His works are in the collections of the Warsaw National Museum, Szczecin National Museum, Museum of Art (Muzeum Sztuki) en Łódź, in several regional and municipal museums of Poland and in private collections of Poland y Europe.
