Wladyslaw Skoczylas - Sleeping knights in the Tatra Mountains. Graphic unsigned.
Original woodcut designed in 1914, later published in "Teka podhalańska", Warsaw, 1921; Printed by B.Wierzbicki.
Dimensions of print 17 x 20 cm, including binding 34.3 x 36.3 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 woodcut. 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 :
Grońska M., Graphics in book, portfolio and album..., Ossolineum, 1994, pos.500