JURGIELEWICZ Mieczyslaw (1900-1983), [print, 1965] [Podgórze landscape].

JURGIELEWICZ Mieczysław (1900-1983), [printmaking, 1965] [Foothills Landscape]; woodcut, paper, imprint 23.5 x 30 cm., card 27 x 35 cm. Not signed.

Mieczyslaw Jurgielewicz (1900-1983) - Polish painter and graphic artist. He studied painting with Ferdynand Ruszczyc at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and with Mieczyslaw Kotarbinski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and graphic design with Władysław Skoczylas also at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He did his studies in Paris, Italy, Belgium and England. From 1936 to 1939 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He belonged to the Association of Graphic Artists Ryt (1937-1939), the Association of Polish Graphic Artists, the Block of Professional Artists. He practiced stained glass painting, printmaking, woodcut, drawing and easel painting. He exhibited his works at the Institute of Art Propaganda in Warsaw, Geneva, Rapperswil and Paris, among others. In 1937, he received a silver medal at the International Art and Technology Exhibition in Paris for his woodcut "Hunting." During World War II, in conspiracy, he headed the Graphic Desk of the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Home Army Headquarters. During the Warsaw Uprising, together with Edmund Burke, he designed the famous poster "To arms, in the ranks of the Home Army." After the capitulation of the uprising, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. After the war, from 1947 to 1952, he was a teacher at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Kardasz group (1957-1963). Since 1965 he was an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 1970 he received an honorable mention at the Third Festival of Fine Arts in Warsaw.