Hoppen Jerzy - Vilnius - Pohulanka before 100 years, etching, 1925.

Under the engraving signatures on the plate: J Hoppen aqua forti fecit. - 1925- | Vilnius-Pohulanka before 10 years.
Etching 16.5 x 21.8 cm, framed 30.5 x 35 cm.
Condition: paper yellowed, scratches on the surface of the graphic (vertical lines in the middle), strong print.
Graphic from the series "Old Vilnius in etchings" Portfolio 2 from 1925(first 1924, third 1927).

Bibliography: Grońska M., Graphics in book, portfolio and album, Ossolineum,1994, pos.246

Jerzy Hoppen (1891 - 1969) - painter, printmaker, educator, restorer, creator of the "Vilnius School" of printmaking. A student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, as well as the Academie Colarossi in Paris. He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of universities in Vilnius, and after the war in Torun.