Still life

Eugeniusz Eibisch received his artistic education between 1912 and 1920 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, in the ateliers of Jacek Malczewski and Wojciech Weiss. Two years after graduation, he obtained a scholarship in Paris, where he became associated with the École de Paris circle of artists, including Chaim Soutin, Maurice Utrill, and Eugeniusz Zak. From 1939 he lived in Kraków, where he began working as a professor at his alma mater, the Academy of Fine Arts. In the collection of the National Museum in Szczecin, there is a painting Ryby w czerwonej misie [Fish in a Red Bowl] painted in 1963-1964, that is in the period of the artist's mature painting. Fish, pheasants and corn became a frequent motif in Eibisch's paintings. It is a still life bordering on abstraction, as particular specific objects can be discerned - against the background of a colourful, dark drapery stands a red bowl with four blue fish. The painting was painted from an upper perspective in dark colours - red, ochre, blue, green and grey. The centre of the composition is a bowl placed diagonally. Colour is the dominant feature of the composition of the painting, which aims to convey the content and expression of the work.

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