Biography
Bernard Tadeusz Frydrysiak (b. Warsaw, Poland 1908 – d. New York, USA 1970) studied at the School of Fine Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) in Warsaw with Tadeusz Pruszkowski (1888-1942) and Władysław Skoczylas (1883-1934) between 1928-1934. He was a member of the Czerń i Biel group and in 1935 joined the Brotherhood of St Luke. During WW2 he hid in the Radon estate near Warsaw and moved permanently to New York in 1949, having participated in the World Exhibition there in 1939. Frydrysiak’s paintings were influenced by the 17th century Dutch masters and he also produced woodcuts and metalpoint prints which he exhibited at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1948. Frydrysiak also wrote poetry.
