The Kazimierz Ostrowski Award is one of the most important awards given to Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 Polish painters and designers in recognition of their excellence. Founded in 2002, it is presented annually by the Association of Polish Painters and Designers in Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

. The award was named after the Polish painter Kazimierz Ostrowski

Kazimierz Ostrowski

Kazimierz Ostrowski was a Polish painter.-Biography:Kazimierz Ostrowski was born on February 14, 1917 in Berlin. In 1920 his family moved to Poznań...

. The official ceremony of the award is held in Gdańsk and is accompanied by an exhibition of a laureate. So far, following artists have received it:

• Teresa Pągowska (2002)
• Kiejstut Bereźnicki
  Kiejstut Bereznicki
  Kiejstut Bereźnicki is a Polish painter.-External links:*...
  
   2003
• Jacek Sempoliński
  Jacek Sempolinski
  Jacek Sempoliński is a Polish painter, draftsman, art professor, critic, and essayist. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has been teaching at his alma mater since 1956.- Awards :...
  
   (2004)
• Stefan Gierowski
  Stefan Gierowski
  Stefan Gierowski is a Polish painter and one of the foremost avant garde artists of post-war Poland.For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions. He abandoned representational and realist painting midway through the 1950s and devoted...
  
   (2005)
• Maciej Świeszewski (2006)
• Władysław Jackiewicz (2007)
• Janina Kraupe (2008)
• Aldona Mickiewicz (2009)
• Tadeusz Dominik
  Tadeusz Dominik
  Tadeusz Dominik is a Polish painter, draftsman, art professor. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He received his degree in the painting studio of Prof. Jan Cybis in 1953. He has been teaching at his alma mater since 1951.In the period of 198-1959 he stayed in Paris with...
  
   (2010)

External links

• http://www.zpap-gdansk.art.pl/ - The Association of Polish Painters and Designers in Gdańsk