Stanisław RACZYŃSKI (1903-1982), Washerwomen, from the series "Folk Themes"

woodcut, paper, 16 x 13.5 cm (light passe-partout); signed in pencil p. d.: St. Raczynski.

Stanislaw Raczynski - painter, graphic artist, stage designer. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1926. He continued his studies at universities in Paris and Italy. His artistic output, is mainly woodcuts, but he was also involved in printmaking, advertising art and illustration. Most often he took up figural and architectural subjects (numerous woodcuts depicting St. Mary's Church in Cracow), which he subjected to decorative stylization. In 1927-28 he worked as a stage designer at the Popular Theater in Krakow, and for the next two years in the same capacity at the Grand Theater in Poznan. In 1930 he went to Paris on a scholarship from the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment.
Bibliography: Index of visual artists graduates and pedagogues of art colleges and members of ZPAP active in 1939-1992, Lexicon Committee of Visual Artists, Gdańsk-Kraków-Łodź-Poznań-Toruń-Warszawa-Wrocław, 1994.