STRAUS Jan - CUT Photomontage on covers in Poland

Jan Straus: born in 1946 in Jelenia Góra, raised in Milanowek intelligent in the fourth generation: great-grandson of Piotr, a Latin teacher at a high school in Kielce, and August Haertig, a factory owner of the largest dye house in Lodz; grandson of Jan, a writer and entrepreneur; nephew of Stefan, a satirist, theater historian and bibliographer; son of Jan Andrzej, an economist by training, who protected in Milanowek from destruction a linden avenue planted by his father that is now more than a century old (here, too, Kochanowski and literature bow down), Mechanical engineer (Ph.D. at the Warsaw University of Technology), former Director of Metallurgy at the Institute of Precision Mechanics in Warsaw, Director of the Central Engineering Board of the MWGZ or President of the Board of Ridi Poland, currently an inhabitant of the capital and a regular at the Warmian Groszkow - he has eaten his bread from more than one oven. He has always read books, buying and collecting them for more than 50 years; he has been interested in book art and collecting covers since the late 70s. He has managed to collect a library of several thousand, abounding in white ravens, dedicated to the culture of the old Republic of Poland. A member of the Society of Polish Bibliophiles in Warsaw since 1974, he willingly makes his collection available, organizes exhibitions, gives lectures and writes about books, because according to the old bibliophile tradition he believes: that he is only a temporary depository for them. Author of books: The Adventure of Errata, The Cut, a bibliography of borderland prints entitled The Shadow of the Borderlands, and several private prints.