Henryk Czesnik - Artist Info

About Henryk Czesnik

  • Biography

    The Polish artist Henryk Czesnik was born in the coastal resort of Sopot in 1951. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk with Kazimierz Ostrowski, where he taught since 1978, first as a lecturer, then from 1994 as a professor.

    The interest in existential themes pervades Czesniks work up to today. In compositions that evolve a great expression, despite their sketchiness, often nightmarish scenes are created that were characterized in Czesnik's early work especially by religious themes. (fea)...

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