NOWACKI KAZIMIERZ, Architecture. (handwritten ex libris by Kazimierz Wisniak)

Architektura krakowskich teatrów, Krakow 1982, Wydawnictwo Literackie, series: Dzieje teatru w Krakowie, pp 570, 15 x 21, 5, hard cloth binding, no wrappers, page edges slightly dusty.

On the title page a peculiar ex libris of Kazimierz Wisniak: a hand-drawn drawing of a ladybug along with the signature of the author, former owner of the book. Kazimierz Wisniak - Polish stage designer, costume designer, painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, as well as co-founder of Piwnica Pod Baranami, and recently author and illustrator of his books. The book shows the history of Krakow's theater buildings and halls. It consists of three parts: part I- Historicism. From the creation of the professional stage in the Spiski Palace to the antreprise in the Old Theater; Part II- Eclecticism. The case of the construction of the City Theater; Part III-Secession, Modernism, Constructivism influences. Theater buildings and halls from the turn of the 20th century in the interwar and postwar years.