Dimensions: 34 x 26.5 cm (sheet)
signed and described in pencil at the bottom: 'Chats', 'JHoppen'
illustration to "Chat" by Adam Mickiewicz
Condition
framed
Literature
Multiplicity in Unity. Intaglio techniques in Poland after 1900, District Museum in Bydgoszcz, 2012, cat. no. 199.
Jan Kotłowski, Jerzy Hoppen. Rytownik, Toruń 1991, p. 42, item 70.
Wojciech Jakubowski - Jerzy Hoppen. Epitaph, "Rocznik Toruński" no. 5 (1971), p. 185.
Biography
Painter, graphic artist, educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, St. Petersburg and Paris. He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the universities of Vilnius and Torun. Creator of the graphic art "School of Vilnius". The main area of his work is artistic and applied graphics; decorative compositions and portraits. He was a member of the WTAP, the Warsaw Graphic Society, the Vilnius Society of Friends of Science and a curator of the WTPN Museum. He exhibited in Vilnius and with the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He participated in a number of national graphic exhibitions and in presentations of Polish art abroad.