Hieronim SKURPSKI (1914-2006), Meal

Watercolor, paper; 34 x 19.5 cm;
Signed p. d.: Skurpski.
From the artist's studio.
Hieronim Skurpski - studied art at the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Cracow and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1944. He worked at the Ministry of Culture and Art in Lublin, and came to Olsztyn in March 1945, with the first team of the Government Plenipotentiary for the Mazurian District. He was an organizer and for many years curator and director of the Museum of Warmia and Mazury, headed the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, was president of the Olsztyn branch of ZPAP, inspired and co-organized many cultural and social initiatives (including co-founder and for many years president of SSK "Pojezierze"). He has published scientific and popularizing works in the field of folk art and culture, protection of historical monuments and contemporary art. He holds numerous state awards and, among many others, the regional Michal Lengowski Award (1988) and the national Oskar Kolberg Award 91991), the Bishop Ignacy Krasicki Medal. Donating in 1992. 30 oil paintings and 30 drawings to the city of Nidzica, he initiated the existence of the "Baszta" Gallery there. He has had many individual exhibitions - including one at Warsaw's "Zachęta" in 1980, and has taken part in group exhibitions at home and abroad, presenting paintings and graphics.