LANGNER Wiktor Zbigniew, Krakow devotional pictures.

Krakow devotional images.

(Krakow, 1942.). Dimensions 35 x 25 cm, 11 plates of colored woodcuts + a plate with the author's dedication to Stefan Mrożewski, cardboard binding, with a woodcut and title pasted to the face.
Occupation portfolio, containing 11 woodcuts reproduced on 22.0 x 17.0 cm. diameter cards and pasted on boards. On 7 of the engravings the monogram on the block "WL". The engravings depict images of saints, mainly from Cracow churches: the Sorrowful Christ from the Church of the Holy Cross; the Sorrowful Mother of God from the Church of the Franciscans; the Mother of God from the Church of the Sand; the Feeding Mother of God; the Rosary Mother of God from the Church of the Dominicans; the Mother of God of Czestochowa; St. Francis and St. Catherine from the Church of the Bernardine Fathers in Radom; St. Francis; the Blessed Virgin Mary of Ostra Brama, the Crucifixion of Christ. On the front cover pastedown woodcut title and woodcut with depiction of the Crucifixion, on the back cover woodcut artist's mark.
Wiktor Zbigniew Langner (1906-1985), graphic artist and painter from Cracow, outstanding creator of ex-librises, student of Jarocki and Mehoffer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and E. Bartłomiejczyk in Warsaw. Langner fought in the September campaign, then in the ranks of the Home Army and the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ) in Cracow; in 1946 he was sentenced to death for WiN activity (pardoned) and imprisoned until 1956. condition of prints very good. Rare.
(Lit. M. Grońska, Grafika w książce, tece i albumie, Wroclaw 1994, p. 252, item 358 (dated there: 1943 and information that the portfolio contained 15 graphics - slightly different selection of works; edition of 15 copies. )