Wladyslaw Skoczylas, Fight with a dragon, original woodcut created circa 1919 (various dates in sources), unsigned. In the following years the engraving was used, among others, to illustrate W. Skoczylas's Teki Podhalańska published in Warsaw in 1921.
Dimensions of the engraving 17 x 20 cm, including the frame 35 x 37.3 cm.
Wladyslaw Skoczylas (born April 4, 1883 in Wieliczka, died April 8, 1934 in Warsaw) - Polish painter, printmaker and sculptor, considered the founder of the Polish school of woodcuts. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski, sculpture in the atelier of Konstanty Laszczka and woodcut in the Berthold atelier at the Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. Co-founder of groups: Association of Polish Artists "Rhythm" (1922) and Association of Graphic Artists "Rhythm" (1925).
Bibliography :
Posthumous exhibition of the works of Wladyslaw Skoczylas, Krakow 1935, item 21, p. 39
Sitkowska M., Władysław Skoczylas, Warsaw 2015, item 23, p. 215.
Grońska M., Graphics in a book, portfolio and album..., Ossolineum, 1994, pos.500
Catalog of an exhibition of woodcuts by Wladyslaw Skoczylas, Warsaw 1933, item 21
