Dimensions: 20.5 x 22.5 cm
Signed, dated and described in pencil at the bottom: 'Edmund Bartłomiejczyk Warsaw 1933'
signed on the block with the artist's bound monogram in the upper left corner
Condition
Framed
Literature
Maria Grońska, Modern Polish woodcut, Wroclaw 1971, p. 114, il. 60
Biography
He was a graphic designer. In 1926 he took over the first chair of graphic design in Poland at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was a co-founder and member of the "Ryt" association. He was mainly engaged in applied graphics (banknotes, postage stamps, book covers and illustrations, posters, ex-librises, textile and lamp designs), genre, religious and landscape graphics (mainly lithographs and colorful woodcuts). He had stylizing tendencies influenced by folk and Japanese woodcuts.