Jerzy Duda Gracz (1941 - 2004) Poland
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 3 3/4"in H x 6 3/4"in W and 8 1/2"in H x 11 1/2"in W with frame
Name variants: Jerzy Duda-Gracz
Biography: Jerzy Duda Gracz graduated from the Graphic Art Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1968. He lectured there from 1976-82 he was a lecturer there and later was a professor at the University of Slask in Katowice. Jerzy Duda Gracz has had over 180 individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad in Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Vienna, Florence, Desseldorf, Chicago, New Delhi, Munich, New York, and so on. He took part in over 300 national and international exhibitions of Polish art. He represented Poland at the XVI Biennial exhibition in Venice in 1984, the XX and XXI World Art Fair in Cologne in 1986 and 1987 and at the EXPO in Seville. The Paintings of Jerzy Duda Gracz can be found in the collections of the Polish National Museum in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk/Danzig, in the museum of the Jagellonian University in Collegium Maius in Cracow, in the Museum of Earth/archeological museum of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and a collection of works in Jasna in Czestochowa. His works can also be found abroad in the collections of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Museum of Pushkin in Moscow, the Municipal Museum in Ghent, the BAWAG Foundation in Vienna, the Vatican Collection and in galleries and collections in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Holland, Israel, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A., Venezuela, Great Britain, Italy and Hungary. Some of his paintings are also part of private collections of W. Ochman and W. Fibak among others.