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Technique: sgraffito
Dimensions: occupies the entire eastern façade
Object: The composition is three-coloured, covering the entire façade like wallpaper. Its left part features several ships under full sail in perspective, all set against the background of rectangular fields, intended to suggest ceramic decorations of various textures and colours. The remaining surface consists of interweaved diamonds, which serve as the background for silhouettes of ships, boats, fish and fantastic animals, and zodiac signs in the lower left part.
Place: The decoration is on the side façade of the tenement house at 47 Piwna Street, from the side of ks. Józef Zator-Przytocki square, opposite the main entrance to the Mariacki church. Alfons Łosowski’s “Marabou” sculpture is right next to the façade.
Information about the author: Kazimierz Śramkiewicz (born in 1914, in Poniec, died in 1998 in Gdańsk). Painter, professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts (PWSSP) in Gdańsk, founder of the Sopot school, he studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv University of Technology in 1932–1939. In 1947, he received his artist painter’s diploma at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Between 1938 and 1939 he was an assistant at the Department of Drawing and Painting of the Lviv University of Technology, and in the 1945–1951 period an assistant and then assistant professor at the Department of Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology. From 1950 he was a lecturer, as of 1956 an associate professor, and in the 1967 to 1986 period a professor of the Department of Painting and Drawing at the State Academy of Fine Arts (PWSSP) in Gdańsk. He continued to work at the university until 1984. From 1939 his works had been presented at 65 individual exhibitions and over 250 collective exhibitions in Poland, as well as many countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. He also received numerous awards and distinctions for outstanding achievements in painting. He worked on the reconstruction of tenement houses in the Główne Miasto in Gdańsk.
Condition of the object: good
Owner/guardian: unknown
Author of the entry: Kora Kowalska
Sources: http://zbrojowniasztuki.pl/alma-mater/nestorzy/kazimierz-sramkiewicz,548
Bibliography: Dekoracje Architektoniczne Gdańska, ed. by Jacek Kriegseisen (Gdańsk 2016)
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