Jerzy Nowosielski

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Jerzy Nowosielski (b. January 7, 1923, Kraków, Poland) is a Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer, illustrator.

One of the most eminent modern Polish artists. Well-known for his religious compositions (wall paintings, iconostases, polychromies), in the Orthodox Churches in Białystok and Jelenia Góra, in the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross at Wesoła near Warsaw, the R.C. Franciscan Church in the Azory district of Kraków, and the Orthodox Church in Kraków. He also paints portraits, landscapes, still life, abstract pictures. His works are to be found in Polish museums, also in private collections in Canada, the USA and Germany. In 1993 He was awarded a prize by a Polish cultural foundation caled "Wielka Fundacja Kultury", and received an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in 2000.