Edmund Ludwik Bartłomiejczyk (1885-1950), Girl with buckets, 1921, color woodcut, watercolor, paper, dimensions 24x18cm (clear passe-partout), 44x36.5cm (with passe-partout), signed, monogram tied on block
Edmund Ludwik Bartłomiejczyk (Warsaw 1885 - 1950 Warsaw) - Polish graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1906-1909) under Jan Stanislawski and Wojciech Weiss and at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1910-1913). He taught at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (1917-1930). He was a professor at the School of Fine Arts (from 1932 the Academy of Fine Arts) in Warsaw, where from 1930 he led the Department of Applied Graphics. After World War II, he organized the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, was a professor there until 1950, and was vice-chancellor in 1945-1946. He was a founding member of "Rytu" (1925-1939), founder of the Circle of Advertising Graphic Artists (1933-1939) and co-organizer of the Block of Professional Artists (1934). He worked mainly in book graphics and woodcuts, as well as lithography, and after 1945 in metal techniques. In 1932, his woodcut Skiers was entered in the Olympic Art and Literature Competition at the Los Angeles Games, but did not receive an Olympic medal. In 1925-1950 he lived and worked in house No. 3 on Hoene-Wrońskiego Street in Warsaw, where there is a memorial plaque.
