Leon Kosmulski (1904 Kiev - 1952 Krakow), Warsaw-Fortepiano-Chopina

woodcut/tissue paper
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm (clear passe-partout)
signed and described in pencil at the bottom: 'LKosmulski 19(?)'

Condition
framed

Biography
Leon Kosmulski studied at the State School of Decorative Arts in Poznań, then at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius under Ludomir Sleńdziński (painting) and Jerzy Hoppen (graphic arts). He completed his studies in 1936, and that year won a distinction at the Second International Woodcut Exhibition in Warsaw. Until 1939 he was an assistant at his alma mater. During World War II, he worked as an illustrator with the underground press. After the war, he settled in Cracow and took up teaching work at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. From 1947 he was a member of the Nine Graphic Artists group, with which he exhibited until the end of his life. He was involved in printmaking (copperplate, woodcut) and applied graphics (illustration, ex-libris, poster), as well as drawing and painting. The artist's favorite subjects before the war were monuments and views of Vilnius. In 1939 he was awarded the Józef Piłsudski Fund Prize for his series of copperplate engravings "Forgotten Graves." After the war, he mainly created woodcuts on the subject of labor in the mining industry, etc.