woodcut, paper 20 x 14 cm (in light passe - partout)
Graphic from the portfolio "Czartak. Cracow 1928.
Zdzislaw Gedliczka (born April 2, 1888 in Rypianka (Eastern Galicia), died May 28, 1957 in Cracow) - painter, graphic artist, stained glass designer.In 1907-1912 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, was a student of Leon Wyczółkowski and Stanisław Dębicki.During World War I he served in the Austrian army. Then he joined the Polish Army. He taught drawing at the matriculation course for war invalids (until 1919), then at the State Vocational Female School. Since 1926 he worked at the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Cracow, (since 1938 the State Institute of Fine Arts in Cracow) where he headed the Department of Embroidery and Lace Design.He was the author of polychromes for the refectory of the Augustinian Fathers in Cracow and churches in Biala, Czernichów, Lagiewniki, Niegardow. He made designs for stained glass windows for churches in Kety, Sucha and Mszana Dolna. He made a design for the marshal's mace of Edward Śmigły-Rydz. He constructed and patented a new type of weaving workshop. It was used to make a new decorative four-strand weave, called the Cracow weave.From 1950 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he headed the Textile Department.
