Georg Johann Tribowski, Still Life with a Bottle on a Chair III, circa 1965.

oil, panel, 71 x 40 cm, signed l.d.: BELLING.J.; signed on the reverse: TRYBOWSKI.J; sticker and export stamp

provenance: private collection, Warsaw

Georg Johan Tribowski (1935 - 2002) Born into a German family (his mother was Austrian, his father a Kashubian) in Gdynia. He spent his childhood and first school years there. In 1947, the Tribowski family moved to Szczecin, where Johann graduated from an art high school and then "studied" painting and art history with Prof. Kusztelski. In 1964, the family moved to Hamburg, where they acquired the status of late displaced persons. Thus, the artist lived in Poland for 29 years, during which he laid the foundation for his artistic work and developed his creative imagination. In 1977, he married Gertruda Bujok, a native of Cieszyn, Poland. He died in 2002 in Hamburg.
The artist left behind 297 works. A comprehensive German-Polish monograph on the artist by Dr. Friedrich Gross was published in 2006, in which the artist's work is analyzed in detail and in depth.
"...What is fascinating about Georg Johann Tribowski's painting lies in his independence, which sometimes borders on original self-will," writes the author of the monograph. His robust painting technique enables him to achieve the vast range of expression described here, from visual reference to reality to non-representational objectlessness, from pain to utopia devoid of explicitness. In the non-objective-constructivist works of the last period of his oeuvre, an unparalleled poetic content was achieved thanks to the refinement of paint application and increasing precision. Far too soon death ended the artist's life and work...".
Georg Johann Tribowski's drawings were exhibited in galleries in New York, while his oil paintings were shown at the Museum für das Fürstentum Lüneburg in Lüneburg, Cieszyn, Warsaw, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Gdynia and many other Polish cities.
Currently, the artist's works are in the National Museum in Wroclaw and the National Museum in Szczecin, as well as the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz and the District Museum in Torun, and several private collections.