Stanisław Borysowski - Polish painter, graphic artist and draughtsman, since 1949 professor of painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the atelier of Władysław Jarocki and Teodor Axentowicz. In 1933, he studied at the studio of Józef Pankiewicz in Paris. In the first years of his artistic activity he remained under a strong influence of Pankiewicz's school. In 1956, he turned his attention to abstract art.