Henryk Berlewi
I am looking for posters, prints and works on paper by Henryk Berlewi (1894–1967). I buy directly from private owners. Correspondence in English or Polish is equally welcome.
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What I am looking for
Posters
Mechano-Faktura, Constructivism, the "Blok" group, exhibition posters.
Prints
Typography, lithographs, screenprints, advertising prints from Reklama-Mechano.
Works on paper
Drawings, watercolours, collages.
Henryk Berlewi
1894–1967Painter, graphic artist, typographer and art theorist, born in Warsaw into a Jewish family. He studied in Warsaw, Antwerp and Paris. From 1918 to 1922 motifs of Jewish culture dominated his work.
In 1921 he turned to Constructivism. In Berlin he met El Lissitzky and Theo van Doesburg and formulated the principle of Mechano-Faktura, announced in Poland in 1924. He was a member of the "Blok" group. His Mechano-Faktura White-Red-Black (1924) is in the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.
In 1926 he returned to figurative art, and from 1928 he lived in Paris. After the exhibition "Precursors of Abstract Art in Poland" (Paris, 1957) he returned to abstraction. He died in Paris in 1967.
- 1894Born in Warsaw on 20 October.
- 1904–1916Studies in Warsaw, Antwerp and Paris.
- 1922–1924Berlin; the principle of Mechano-Faktura, announced in 1924.
- 1924Reklama-Mechano in Warsaw, with Aleksander Wat and Stanisław Brucz.
- 1928Settles permanently in Paris.
- 1957Exhibition "Precursors of Abstract Art in Poland", Paris.
- 1964Retrospective at the Institut français in Berlin.
- 1967Dies in Paris on 2 August.