Roman Banaszewski 

Born in 1932 in Janikow.
Painter, drawer, graphic artist and graphic designer. A retired full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. From 1954 to 1959 he studied painting and graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He earned the diploma in the Lithography Studio of prof. Konrad Srzednicki and Poster Faculty of PhD Maciej Makarewicz. In 1961 he began to work as a professor in the Architecture Department at the Cracow University of Technology. In 1969 he also lectured in Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He was the head of the Studio of Book Design and Typography in the Faculty of Graphic Art there for many years. He worked at the European Academy of Arts, too. Currently he has given lectures in the Faculty of New Media Art at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Technology in Warsaw. His works have been shown in a few dozen individual exhibitions home and abroad and constitute many museum archives as well as gallery and private collections in Poland and other countries. His artistic and pedagogical activity has been acknowledged in a series of awards and honors like ‘Golden Laurel” received in 2001 from the Polish Cultural Foundation for the mastery of painting art of reflection.

Exhibition in Brama Gallery, October 2004.