woodcut, paper, 23x17 cm, signed l.d.: from Chrostowski block
The work comes from the portfolio "The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare", published by New York, The Limited Editions Club 1940
Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He began his studies in painting in Moscow (1923-29) and continued his education 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 woodcuts. 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.
