Jonasz Stern
First and last name
Jonasz Stern
Date of birth
1904, Kalush
Date of death
1988, Zakopane
Jonasz Stern was a Polish painter, graphic artist and educator of Jewish origin. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. After the Second World War, he was associated with a group of artists from Tadeusz Kantor's circle. After 1956, with the advent of informel art and then matter painting, the form of Stern's painting crystallized. He began to create relief structures in which he used fish skeletons, skins, bones and other organic waste.