Dimensions: 49 x 35 x 38 cm
Biography
Poland's best known creator of unique glass, treated as a sculpture in its own right. The artist learned his trade 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 more than 250 cut patterns for crystals. His stay in Silesia lasted until 1950 when he moved to Lodz, and later, in 1963, he returned to Warsaw. After leaving Silesia, he continued to create glass. The artist devoted many years of work to unique, heat-formed glass. He rejected the technique of blowing glass into molds in favor of the so-called free molding from a glass bubble using only a squeegee and tools he constructed. He moved away from using glass only to make everyday objects. He realized sculptural glass compositions inspired by nature, the "Winter" series, or the world of flora and fauna, such as the "Swans" or, "Vases - Flowers" series. Many works refer to music, of which he was an admirer. The artist's glassware has been presented at many individual exhibitions in the country, including in Jelenia Gora, Krakow, Lodz, Poznan, Siedlce, Szczecin, Torun, Warsaw and Wroclaw. The works have also been repeatedly shown at individual exhibitions abroad, including in Berlin, Bratislava, Leipzig, London, Moscow and Prague. Assemblies of glass by Henryk Albin Tomaszewski are in many museums in Poland and abroad.
