woodcut, paper, 20 x 15 cm
woodcut, paper, 20 x 15 cm in light passe - partout, signed on woodcut plate p.d. "S.C."
Stanislaw Ostoja-Chrostowski (1900-1944) - Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He began studying painting in Moscow (1923-29) and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. After the death of Władysław Skoczylas, he took over the chair of the Department of Artistic Graphics in 1937. He practiced exclusively woodcut. One of the most outstanding wood engravers of the interwar period. Professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works are characterized by refined texture and composition, idyllic mood, tendency to stylization. In total, he made about 400 compositions.