watercolor.paper, 33x44cm in light passe-partout,signed.p.d.ZKałędkiewicz,work comes from the collection of his son
Born in 1913 in Częstochowa. In 1937-39 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. However, his painterly and literary education took place mainly as a result of self-education during his youth, and especially during the occupation.
Since 1945, he participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Zdzislaw Kalędkiewicz's first solo exhibition of paintings in September 1945 in Gdynia, was at the same time the first exhibition after World War II on the coast. In 1946-73 he was active as a teacher in the Department of Painting and Drawing of the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdansk University of Technology, the State High School of Fine Arts in Gdynia - Orlowo and the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He has been repeatedly awarded and honored for his work.
Parallel to his painting work, he writes and publishes essays and columns about art in the press. Zdzislaw Kalędkiewicz's aphorisms are published in many anthologies of Polish and world aphorism. Paintings are in the collections of the National Museum in Gdansk, Warsaw and Szczecin, the Wyczółkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz, museums in Slupsk, Torun, Koszalin, Czestochowa and Rzeszow, as well as in private collections at home and abroad.
In 1999, he is awarded the Prince of Msstvo II medal for services to the City of Gdansk for outstanding achievements in the field of culture. In 2003, he receives a Diploma from the Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Poland for his creative and didactic work. Zdzislaw Kalędkiewicz passed away in March 2005.
