Leon Kosmulski(1904-1952),Tyniec

Woodcut, paper; 17 x 13 cm (light passe-partout).

Leon Kosmulski (1904 - 1952) - Polish graphic artist.
He studied at the State School of Decorative Arts and the Faculty of Fine Arts at Vilnius University under Ludomir Sleńdzinski and Jerzy Hoppen.
During the war he stayed in Vilnius, after the war he settled in Cracow. He was an assistant professor of the drawing department at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology.
His work included woodcuts (Churches of Vilnius, 1935-1936) and copperplates (Forgotten Graves, Ruins of Warsaw), as well as book graphics (Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 1950).
He was a member of the GROUP OF DAYS OF GRAPHIC ARTISTS, bringing together the most prominent representatives of Polish wood engraving in post-war Poland.
The work was printed in Anczyc's printing house in Cracow by Jozef Molenda, from original pear blocks.