Mondral Charles ( 1880 - 1957), Nocturne with Castle, Paris ca. 1910
Etching, paper, plate imprint.
Sig. K. Mondral Paris ( in pencil).
Framed print. Format in light passe-partout : 10 x 11 [cm].
Student of Wojciech Gerson and Leon Wyczółkowski. In 1909 he went to Paris, where he studied the technique of etching. During this time he traveled extensively in France and Switzerland, where he searched for subjects for his works. At the same time he was creating intensively, his works participated in exhibitions of Parisian salons. In Paris, Karol Mondral had two solo exhibitions, in 1919 at the Société Nationale and in 1921 at L'Association France-Pologne. In 1922, he returned to Poland and settled in Bydgoszcz, where he became the head of the Graphic Department at the State School of Art Industry, and was the organizer of a vocational school for printers-poligraphers. In 1931 he moved with his family to Poznan, where he took up the position of professor of the Graphic Arts Department at the State School of Decorative Arts. Until the outbreak of World War II, he headed the studio of lithography and dry-ink techniques. He was a member of the Union of Polish Artists and the Plastics art group, and had solo exhibitions in Warsaw in 1923 and 1930, and in 1928 and 1947 in Poznań. During World War II he lived in Warsaw, in 1945 he returned to Poznan and became a lecturer in graphic arts at the State Higher School of Plastic Arts.
Karol Mondral's engravings decorated the cabins of the tourist class of the transatlantic liner "Pilsudski," whose interiors were decorated by a team of Polish artists in 1934.
