Andrzej Pietsch

Andrzej Pietsch (1932 – 2010) was born in Cracow where he finished the High School of Art. He studied and graduated from the Print Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He worked as a tutor there. After some years he started to work at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań. He ran the Intaglio Studio there. In 1969 he became the Dean of the Print Faculty in Katowice (the department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow). In the seventies he was twice a rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In seventies and eighties he chaired the International Print Biennial in Cracow. He used mainly etching and silkscreen sometimes. He got the Art Prize of City of Cracow (1974), the Art Award of the Minister of Culture (1975), and also many other awards and distinctions e.g.: at the International Print Biennial in Cracow (1966, 1968, 1970), the International Print Biennial in Bradford (1976) and Fredrikstaad (1984). In 1999 he won the Equal Award at the Print Biennial of Small Forms in Łódż.

The artist had one individual exhibition in Jan Fejkiel Gallery. He also took part in collective shows organised by the gallery, i.a.: Winners & Followers, JFG, Cracow 1991; Polish Institute of Culture, Stockholm 1991; The Ironic Portrait, the State Gallery (1993, Cracow, Kielce, Łódż), Forum Ost-West (1994, Bergisch Gladbach); Stone, Metal, Wood, Computer ,Cracow Expo Center(1994); The Element and the Method, Galerie de la C.G.E.R. (1996, Liege), Centrum Manggha (1997, Cracow).