Pękalski Zdzisław
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was
born in
1941 in Lwów. In 1959 he passed a secondary –
school leaving examination. In 1962 he graduated The
Tutorial College in Rzeszów and in 1980 the
University named after Maria Curie – Skłodowska
in Lublin, where he graduated as a Master of Arts. In
1969 he started exposing his own creation (in 1999 he
had 8 exhibitions in Poland, among them in Jarosław,
Przemyśl, Rzeszów, Tarnobrzeg, Ostrów Świętokrzyski).
He arrived to Hoczew in 1963 and started working in a
local Primary School. From 1993 he is a retired person
who works with young people. Some of them graduated
the Academy of Fine Arts and a lot of them have
finished secondary art schools. His interests are
different. He collects the information about
Hoczew’s history and he is also a poet. His
poems could be found in many magazines. He also is
going to publish his own volume of poetry. He creates
the paintings only on the old boards. In 1998 he
opened in a cellar at home an own gallery. He paints
mostly the saints. The gallery is opened all year
round. Zdzisław Pękalski has got an older brother,
who is a politolog, a lawyer and a proffesor at the
University in Warsaw.
See too:
Galeria
w Hoczwi, Hoczew, Muzeum w
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