Przemyslaw Tyszkiewicz

Przemysław Tyszkiewicz – Polish printmaker specializing in copperplate, etching, and aquatint. He also creates large-format works in his original corsydian technique. Author of around 400 exhibitions with over 6000 prints in museum and private collections worldwide.

Przemysław Tyszkiewicz – printmaker and engraver

Przemysław Tyszkiewicz (b. 1964, Wrocław) is a distinguished Polish artist, working in copper engraving, etching, and aquatint. He has also developed an original technique called corsydians, using large-format metal plates and glass.

Exhibitions and collections

He has presented his works in approx. 400 solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Over 6000 of his prints are held in museums and private collections, including:

• City Museum of Wrocław
• Copper Museum, Legnica
• Tianjin Museum, China
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
• University of Tokyo, Japan
• Private collections of J. Chirac, G. Schröder, J.M. Barroso, A. Kwaśniewski, J. Nowak-Jeziorański, K. Penderecki, Grażyna Kulczyk, R. Demarco

Biography and education

• 1990 – Diploma in graphic design and fine arts, PWSSP Wrocław
• 1992 – Assistant at the Studio of Artistic Graphics, Prof. H. Pawlikowska
• 1997 – PhD, Academy of Fine Arts Wrocław
• 2003 – Habilitation, Associate Professor, Academy of Fine Arts Wrocław
• 2005–2009 – Head of the Department of Artistic Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts Wrocław
• 2014 – Title of Full Professor, granted by the President of Poland
• 2023 – Founder of the Tyszkiewicz Graphic Foundation and Gallery, Wrocław

Awards

• 1994 – 2nd Prize, Graphic Review, Wrocław
• 1999 – Daniel Chodowiecki Prize, Günter Grass Foundation, Berlin
• 1999 – Special Prize, International Print Biennale, Lubin
• 2001 – Special Prize, International Ex Libris Competition, Ostrów Wielkopolski
• 2002 – Special Prize, Lower Silesian Graphic and Drawing Competition
• 2005 – Distinction, 11th International Biennale of Small Graphic Forms and Ex Libris, Ostrów Wlkp.
• 2018 – Gold Medal of Merit for the City of Wrocław