In the summer of 2005, the State Art Gallery in Sopot organized the first in many years an individual exhibition of works by Jonasz Stern, one of the best Polish artists of Jewish origin, co-founder of the Krakow Group I, lecturer and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalog entitled Stern's centenary. Works by Jonasz Stern (1904-1988) from the 1930s and 1980s, with an introduction by Włodzimierz Nowaczyk. Due to the great interest in the exhibition of the artistic community in Poland and Ukraine, the organizer of the exhibition decided to continue the project by moving the exhibition to the National Museum. Andrzej Szeptycki in Lviv, which could be seen there at the turn of July and August 2008. The presentation of the works was a kind of "return to the roots" of the artist, because it was in this city that Stern took his first painting steps in the studio of prof. Gajewski. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalog entitled Jonasz Stern (1904-1988). A landscape of silence. Return to Lviv. The article discusses the aforementioned publication, citing some facts from the life and work of Stern.
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