[Bibliophilic print] Chinese Themes / [selection] Emil Zegadłowicz, circulation by the author, Gorzeń-górny 1919, pp. 29, [1], dimensions 12.5 x 19 cm. Dedication by Emil Zegadłowicz to Edward Kozikowski [co-founder of the "Czartak" group]. Exlibris of Zegadłowicz made by Ludwik Misky. Zegadłowicz's signature under the photo. cardboard cover, original.
Private printing FOR THE AUTHOR, issued in an edition of 30 numbered pieces. This No. 1.
Edward Kozikowski (born November 13, 1891 in Warsaw, died September 14, 1980 in Katowice) - Polish poet and prose writer.
Emil Erwin Zegadłowicz (born July 20, 1888 in Biała Krakowska, died February 24, 1941 in Sosnowiec) - Polish poet, prose writer, art expert and translator.
Czartak - a regionalist literary group founded in Wadowice by Emil Zegadłowicz, active from 1922 to 1928. The name was taken from dialect, it means a cottage, a watchtower, a shed made of boards. The name Czartak was also used to describe a building near the village of Mucharz (probably a former guardhouse or chapel). Czartak's program combined religious mysticism with love of nature and praise of the "simple man" closely communing with it (Franciscanism). Disliked modern civilization (anti-urbanism). He was inspired by the ideas of Expressionism. The group was associated with the culture and topography of the Beskids, promoting regional motifs. Between 1922 and 1928 the group published 3 issues of the magazine "Czartak." Members of the group included: Edward Kozikowski, Jan Nepomucen Miller, Tadeusz Szantroch, Janina Brzostowska, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Jan Wiktor and several prominent artists-artists such as Julian Fałat, Wojciech Weiss, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Jan Hrynkowski. Some members of the group came from the environment of the magazine "Ponowa".