Dimensions: 38.5 x 33.8 cm (sheet)
Condition
torn l.d. and losses in paper l.g.
Biography
During World War I he fought in the 2nd Uhlan Regiment of the Polish Legions, after 1918 he left for Germany, where he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating, he returned to Krakow, where he became a teacher of sculpture at the School of Fine Arts. He was a master of wood engraving and color linocut, the creator of many ex-librises, and was significantly influenced by Japanese wood engravers and the Krakow School of Landscape. The subjects of his works were architecture, landscapes and animals, in the creation of which he used innovative methods that showed the importance of exposure in an experimental way.
