Zdzislaw Nitka, Wilczek - Day, 1998

woodcut, paper, 53.5 x 71 cm (clear passe-partout), signed, dated and described at the bottom: "WOLF - DAY" E/A III/X Z. Nitka '98

origin: private collection, Warsaw

Zdzisław Nitka was born in 1962 in Oborniki Śląskie. Interned during martial law, from 1982-87 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where he earned a diploma in painting in the atelier of Józef Hałas. His works were exhibited at the exhibition "Expression of the 80's" in Sopot (1986). He works in painting, drawing and printmaking. In 1997, together with his wife, they opened a private Expressionist Museum in Oborniki Śląskie. In the 1980s, the artist corresponded with Georg Baselitz, a prominent German artist, who dedicated a work on paper called Maler Nitka to him.

"I am turned on by the black stories of the Expressionists: Kirchner, Munch or Nolde. It is a source of inspiration for me and an energy that makes me want to be a painter all the time. I paint while listening to The Rolling Stones because, like them, the role of outsider and rebel suits me. I don't want to be fashionable and I have no desire to identify with modernity, i.e. politics, technological advances and questionable customs." - Zdzislaw Nitka