Henryk STARZYŃSKI, BEFORE THE BARKER

Oil, cardboard; 52 x 39.5 cm
Signed p.d.: H. Starzyński
Asking price 750
Estimate 1500 - 2000
◙ droit de suite

Grandson of a Siberian exile. After obtaining citizenship in 1932, he came to Poland and settled in Krakow. Here he graduated from the State School of Art Industry and began a permanent cooperation with Robert Jahoda's Bookbinding Company in the field of graphic design and artistic book binding. At the same time, he taught at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts. He participated in numerous competitions and exhibitions. He designed posters, ex-librises, dealt with typography and lettering, did mural painting but above all painted watercolors. He was the initiator and president of the Watercolor Club at the Cracow district of ZPAP.