Stanislaw Borowski
A LIFE FOR ART
The artist Stanislaw Borowski, one of the big names in the European studio-glass movement of the late 1970s, achieved a previously unseen quality in his engraved and sculptural works. Compellingly presented in numerous exhibitions, they have reached a wide audience in Europe, Asia, and the USA.
Stanislaw dedicated his life to his art and his family.
His impressive career and enormous uvre of sculptures and engraved pieces inspired us to publish this page, providing insight into his life and work.
Stanislaw plays the multifaceted glassmaking techniques with great virtuosity.
Over the years he developed an intensive complex of works that address human existence and the political issues of his time. At the beginning he made simple glass bodies with a colored overlay.
With consummate skill and using self-made tools, he engraved
his fantasies into the thin glass-skin. With the growing technical possibilities that became available to him over the years, he created complex compositions. In these, he fused mouth-blown and ...
He continued to sound out the technical limits of glassmaking anew and gave the engraved image spatial dimensions.
The reciprocal e ects between engraving and sculpture opened up new possibilities and externalized the artist’s feelings and moods.
Vita
1944
• Born in Moutiers City (France)
1965
• Started to work in KROSNO Glass Manufacture Poland, the biggest glass manufacture in Central Europe. He had formal training in all areas of glass making, production and design. It was his first experience with crystal-glass material.
1982
• Took refuge with his family from Poland to Germany. (at that time in a political state of emergency)
1986
• Creates the breakthrough with his glass art sculptures in Europe and the USA and gains worldwide renown as a glass artist.
1989
• Creates the breakthrough with his glass art sculptures in Europe and the USA and gains worldwide renown as a glass artist.
2011
• Awarded to Honoris Couse degree by Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw Poland.
Selected Masterworks
Legends of Rock & Roll
Legends of Rock&Roll | 2005
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 45x 28x 45cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Hamburg Ship
Hamburg Ship | 2005
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 60x 30x 80cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Grand Valentino II
Grand Valentino | 2005
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 46x 16x 65cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Tales from the Blue Lagoon
Tales from the Blue Lagoon | 2006
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 83x 20x 92cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Deep From My Heart
Deep From My Heart | 2005
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 45x 28x 45cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
free shaped elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Sofa III
Sofa III | 2000
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 27x 23x 36cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
free shaped elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
The Greatest Masterworks
If you compare life to a ship, I think its background should be crystal clear.
Swim in the long river of the world, reflecting the magnificent glow in the sunset. At that time, the mark of the shuttle in the light was like a passing passenger on the boat, or a childish child...
Glass Tales
by Stanislaw
In Venice
In Venice |1996
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 45x 15x 34cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Face
Fece | 1991
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 24x 26x 23 cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Medusa In Red
Fece | 1991
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 26x 26x 33 cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Bass Player
Bass Player | 2002
Stanislaw Borowski
size: 30x21x 30cm H
assembly technique, sand blasted,
Hand blowing colorful glass
Hand engraved elements in glass,
copper-wheel engraved colored glass
Major Fairs
and Exhibitions
1999
• Museum Okregowe, One-Man Show, Jelenia Gora, Poland
• Engraved Glass international Exhibition, London, U.K.
• Galerie Kaspar Hauser Schloss,Pilsach, Germany
• Galerie Rob Van den Doel, The Hague, Netherlands
• Galerie Herrmann, Drachselsried, Germany
• First Glass Galerie , Munich, Germany
• SOFA 99/Compositions Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US
2000
• Glassymposium Frauenau, Symposiumsausstellung, Shattering Percepcioners,
• Dennons Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, US
• Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
• SOFA 2000/Compositions Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US
• Rosenthal Studio-Haus, Hamburg, Germany
• Rosenthal Studio-Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
2001
• Contemporary Polish Glass of the 1990s
• Muzeum Okregowe, Jelenia Gora, Poland
• Millenium Museum, Beijing, China
• Rosenthal Studio-Haus, Hamburg, Germany
• Zwischen Licht und Dunkel, Gemeinschaftsaustellung der Glaskunstlervereinigung NRW, Deutsches Glasmalerei
• Museum Linnich, Glaschutte Gernheim
• Exhibition at Alden Biesen
2002
• The 30th Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
• The Visionary Worlds, Bilzen, Belgium
• Exhibition in Alden Biesen
• SOFA 2002/Compositions Gallery and Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, US
2003
• The 31st Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
• Faszination Glass, Art Barn, Galerie Niagara, Dusseldorf, Meerbusch, Germany
2004
• The 32nd Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
• Glass Lovers Tour, Studio Borowski, Poland, Cooperation with Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
• Pan Amsterdam, Etienne & Van den Doel, Expressive Glass Art, Netherland
2005
• The 33rd Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
2006
• The 34th Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
2007
• The 35th Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
2008
• The 36th Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
2009
• The 37th Annual international Glass invitational Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Michigan, US
