page_title: Aleksander Werner
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Aleksander Werner / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Aleksander Werner Collage Pink 1975
context_page_description: Aleksander Stanislaw Werner was a Polish émigré artist who worked for most of his professional life in Great Britain. He worked in paint, collage, woodcut print, and sculpture.
context_section_description: During his first years in Britain, Werner concentrated on painting and printmaking, and his intricate woodcuts were exhibited in London, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. In 1954–55 Werner was chosen to represent Great Britain in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Colour Woodcut Exhibition. His "dramatic" style made his woodcuts popular as book jacket illustrations in the 1950s.  Werner took part in British and international exhibitions of woodcuts until 1963. He also taught wood engraving.
  In the early 1960s Werner turned to sculpture. In a major solo exhibition of his work from this period, held in the Drian Gallery in London in the early 1970s, he included almost 50 dynamic pieces in fired clay. His public sculpture commissions included pieces for the Church, for industry and for a number of public buildings throughout the United Kingdom. A large collection of his work is also displayed in Torun, Poland, which exhibits him as a prominent European artist of the 20th century. At the end of the 1960s, the artist created a monumental aluminium relief for the Acton offices of CAV Ltd in London. In 1971, a ceramic mural decorated the headquarters of the Board of TESCO. A gilt bas-relief found a home in front of a tabernacle in a Manchester church. From 1976, Werner’s sculpture was created from fused glass.
caption: Collage Pink, Aleksander Werner (1975)
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