Dimensions: 22 x 20 cm (clear passe-partout)
Signed l.d.: 'ST. O. Chrostowski'
Condition
Framed
Literature
Agata Pietrzak, Stanisław Ostoya-Chrostowski 1900-1947, Warsaw 2007, item 273, p. 61.
Biography
Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He began his studies in painting in Moscow (1923-29) and continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. After the death of Władysław Skoczylas, he took over the chair of the Department of Artistic Graphics in 1937. He practiced exclusively woodcuts. One of the most outstanding wood engravers of the interwar period. Professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works are characterized by refined texture and composition, idyllic mood, tendency to stylization. In total, he made about 400 compositions.