Dimensions: 28 x 19 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: '70 | ZECH.'
Biography
Draughtsman, illustrator, pastel painter. In 1932 he graduated from the School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Cracow. From 1929 to 1936 he was a member of the group of artists of the Horned Heart Strain, fascinated by its "Master" Stanislaw Szukalski. In 1937 he made 37 illustrations for the novel "Motors" by Emil Zegadłowicz, which was confiscated a year later. In late 1973 and early 1974, he was on a six-month Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship in New York. In 1981 he published his memoirs "In the open." The artist's exhibitions (mainly after his death) were held in several Polish museums and galleries, the largest in the National Museum in Kielce (1997) and the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow (2002). "He admired the symbolic art of the great artists of the 19th century - like them, he considered woman to be the evil Eve tempting man to low, amoral acts having little to do with the divine creation of art. On the other hand, however, Zechowski's woman, so colorful, alluring, plump and enticing is the better half of man, what a beautiful burden to carry" (Iwona Rajkowska).
