Henryk Tomaszewski - Artist Info

About Henryk Tomaszewski

  • Biography

    Henryk Tomaszewki lived from 1906 to 1993. The most famous Polish creator of unique glass treated as an independent sculpture. The artist studied his profession at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts in Warsaw and then at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After World War II, he worked in Szklarska Poreba, where he designed over 250 patterns of crystals.

    The stay in Silesia lasted until 1950, when he moved to Lódz, and later, in 1963, he returned to Warsaw. After leaving Silesia, he continued his work in the field of glass. The artist devoted many years of work to unique, hot-formed glasses. He rejected the technique of blowing glass into molds in favor of the so-called free forming from a glass...

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