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Artist Stanislaw
Frenkiel Title Courtesan Enters Istanbul Date 1990's object Painting Media oil Size 132 x 96.5cm Ref 938 Purchased from the artist's RWA New Gallery Exhibition in 2003 Other websites featuring this artist's work www.frenkielart.com Courtesan Enters Istanbul Stanislaw Frenkiel was born in 1918 and studied at his hometown Kracow Academy of Fine Art and subsequently in 1938 went to Paris where he met Rouault, Kisling and other artists. He returned to Poland on the eve of World War Two but was arrested by the Russians and deported. Released after two years in a prison camp he worked in Russia as a portrait painter. In 1942 he joined the Polish Army in Russia and travelled to the Middle East. At the end of the war he won an award enabling him to study at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Beirut, where he held his first exhibition at the American University. He came to England in 1947 and has since exhibited regularly in London at the Grabowski Gallery, Drian Gallery, the Bloomsbury Gallery and elsewhere. He has on several occasions had retrospective exhibitions in France, Belgium, Germany, Poland and the USA. Stanislaw Frenkiel held the post of Head of Art Department at Wimbledon College from 1958 to 1965 and then became Head of Art Department at Gypsy Hill College of Education (University of London) from 1965 to 1973. He was Head of Art Reader Emeritus at University of London, Institute of Education from 1973 to 1984. He was also Professor of Fine Art at Krakow Academy of Fine Art and is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Krakow. Since 1974 he has been a member of the London Group. In the October 2000 Academicians' Questionnaire he wrote in summary of his work:
especially the theatrical tradition of the Kracow festivals, masks and processions…I studied with Georges Rouault in Paris and at the John Cass Institute and the Courtauld Institute (under Blunt, Pevsner and Gombrich). My work belongs to the European expressive tradition. I have also produced some graphic work in etchings and aquatints: 'Erotomachia', for Black Star Press in 1996'. back |
