Dimensions: 80 x 30 x 18 cm
Signed on the back: 'H. BURZEC'
Biography
Polish sculptor. He began his education at a carpentry school in Brest-on-the-Bug. In 1936 he left for Zakopane to study at the School of Wood Industry, from which he graduated in 1939. After the war, he took up studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, in the sculpture studio of Xawery Dunikowski. During his studies, he collaborated with Dunikowski on the heads of Wawel Castle and the Silesian Insurgents Monument on Mount St. Anne. After graduation, he worked as a teacher in Rydułtowe near Rybnik. In 1954 he settled in Zakopane. For a year he worked at an art high school. From 1987 to 2005 he ran an author's gallery in his home (the former studio of Teodor Axentowicz), where he collected several dozen of his works. He participated in solo exhibitions: BWA Zakopane (1963), ZDK Mielec (1967), BWA Zakopane (1976), TPPR Zakopane (1977), BWA Mielec (1977), BWA Rzeszow (1977), BWA Bialystok (1979), Zachęta Warsaw (1980), Art Propaganda Center Lodz (1980), PSP Zakopane (1984), Capital Garrison Club No. 2 Warsaw (1984), Gallery "Dawna Synagoga", Nowy Sacz (1985), Halls of Kazimierz Castle, Sandomierz (1998).
