Size: 33 x 26 cm
the work comes from Teki Melpomeny, published in Pruszyński's lithographic printing house in Kraków in 1904; signed on the plate l.d.: 'FK'
Condition
framed
Literature
Maria Grońska, Graphics in book, portfolio and album. Polish artistic and bibliophilic publications from 1899-1945, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1994, pp. 190-191, item 7.
Sztuka Młodej Polski, Kraków 1965, Grafika polska około 1900 roku, Kraków 1968
Biography
In 1887-96 he studied at the faculty of the Technical University of Munich; he also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Leon Wyczółkowski and Józef Unierzyski. He continued his artistic studies in 1902-04 at Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule, Paris' Academie Julian (1904-05) and London's William Morris School. From 1930 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He was a member of the society Polish Applied Art. He was the author of decorations and costumes mainly for the J. Słowacki Theater in Cracow (1935 - 39) and the Polish Theater in Warsaw (1913 -31). He popularized three-dimensional decorations in Polish theater. He was the creator of polychromes in many Cracow churches, and co-author of the decor of the Cracow cafe Jama Michalika.