format:27x20cm,color woodcut,paper,author's signature p.d.
Original work by the well-known Cracow graphic artist Stanislaw Raczynski, depicting Mr. Twardowski. In a vertical composition, the artist depicted the legendary Cracow sorcerer, who possessed his magical abilities by selling his soul to the devil. To escape his fate, Twardowski jumped on a rooster and soared into the sky escaping his sentence to the moon, where he is said to sit to this day. At the bottom is the caption: "Mr. Twardowski on a rooster."
Stanislaw Raczynski (1903 - 1982) painter, graphic artist, stage designer. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1926. He continued his studies at universities in Paris and Italy. His artistic output was mainly woodcuts, but he was also involved in printmaking, advertising art and illustration. Most often he took up figural and architectural subjects (numerous woodcuts depicting St. Mary's Church in Cracow), which he subjected to decorative stylization. In 1927-28 he worked as a stage designer at the Popular Theater in Krakow, and for the next two years in the same capacity at the Grand Theater in Poznan. In 1930 he went to Paris on a scholarship from the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment. Bibliography: Index of visual artists graduates and pedagogues of art colleges and members of ZPAP active in 1939-1992, Lexicon Committee of Visual Artists, Gdańsk-Kraków-Łodź-Poznań-Toruń-Warszawa-Wrocław, 1994.
