Henryk Hermanowicz

Henryk Hermanowicz (20 October 1912, Vilno, now Vilnius – 3 May 1992, Kraków^[1]) was a Polish master of photography, a student of Jan Bułhak.^[2]

Henryk Hermanowicz
Born	(1912-10-20)20 October 1912 Vilno, now Vilnius
Died	3 May 1992(1992-05-03) (aged 79) Kraków
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	photographer

Open air exhibition – Kremenets. Photographs of 1929–1939 – at the Krakow Suburb in Warsaw (26 October 2012) on a banner with photographs of the photographers: Henryk Hermanowicz, Ludwik Gronowski, and Stanisław Sheybal.

Biography

He is listed in the Encyclopedia of World Photography (Switzerland).^[3] He worked as a professor at the Kremenets Lyceum (from 1937), head of the Kremenets Museum of Local Lore (from 1940).^[1]

During the Second World War, together with Stanisław Sheybal, he opened the "Mystetstvo" photo salon in Kremenets.^[4]

From 1945, he lived in Kraków.^[1]

Creativity

In 1931, he made his debut as a master at the V International Salon of Art Photography.^[2] Participated in international exhibitions.^[1]

He illustrated the books-albums "Kremenets", "Chudove ridne misto Juliusza Słowackiego", "Misto velykoi tuhy" (all published in 1939, Kremenets) published on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Juliusz Słowacki birth.^[3]

The works are kept in the collections of the Regional Literary and Memorial Museum of Juliusz Słowacki and the Kremenets Local History Museum.^[2][4]