Painter of landscapes and portraits, as well as educator associated with the Łódź Film School. He was born on July 13, 1917 in Kraków. He died on June 14, 2012 in Warsaw. Mierzejewski came from a multigenerational family of artists. His father, Jacek Mierzejewski (1883-1925) was among the pre-war painters associated with the group of Polish Formists. His brother Andrzej (1915-82) was also a visual artist. Both took up the work of art under the influence of their father, who remains the most famous of the three. The art of the younger Mierzejewskis was known only to a small circle of art lovers. It was only in the 1990s that their art was presented to the wider public. Jerzy Mierzejewski commenced his studies in 1937 at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, but only formally graduated almost 20 years later,in 1956. At the academy, he attended the studio of Mieczysław Kotarbiński. Shortly after the war, he dealt mainly with organisational activities: he co-founded the branches of Polish Artists Association in Lublin and Łódź. Just as many artists in his day, he made a living by working on architectural decorations: painting and ceramics. Acting in conjunction with his brother, he founded Zespół 12 (Group 12), which embellished buildings in Warsaw, Poznań and Wrocław. Mierzejewski was constantly in search for his personal artistic path. After a brief period of hesitation, in the late 1940s, the artist began to make art films and documentaries, and later television. He was fascinated by the common elements connecting art and film, as he expressed in a number of critical texts dealing with this subject. It seemed that film would dominate much of his artistic output, especially since joining the staff at the Łódź National Film School in 1950, where he worked for many years. He was a respected teacher, teaching drawing and art issues in film. He served as dean of the directing and cinematography faculties. From 1974-1975... [https://culture.pl/en/artist/jerzy-mierzejewski] undefined

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