Woodcut. Dimensions: 33 x 24 cm
Limited edition: 1/50
Hand signature.
Stanislaw Voytovich (1920-1991). Outstanding graphic artist and painter. From 1940-1942 he studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Cracow. Then at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1945-1947, where he worked as a lecturer from 1950 to 1975. He belonged to the circle of the most prominent representatives of artistic graphics of the 1960s, alongside Jozef Gielniak and Jerzy Panek, with whom he was friends, as well as other artists in this extremely developed field of art, especially in Cracow. He was proficient in all graphic techniques, but was particularly fond of the woodcut. He created works usually in large formats. He synthesized shapes and views into compact areas of black and white, sometimes with color accents. In addition to printmaking, he did painting and drawing, marginally designing posters. He was a member of the MARG group (since 1957), "Circle" and the International Association of wood engravers XYLON in Switzerland. He won numerous awards, including an award in the UN International Poster Competition, Paris 1948, an award at the Third International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana 1959, a medal at the First "Golden Grape" Symposium, Zielona Gora 1963, a special award at the Second International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Krakow 1968. Monika Branicka writes about the artist (Between Negative and Positive. Painting and Woodcut Board Exhibition): "He was also a great individuality of the Krakow artistic landscape. (...) As few artists can boast the presence of his works in such places as the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With his prints he traveled everywhere, won the highest prizes, belonged to the elite XYLON group and the Marg and Circle groups, but in Poland he hardly exhibited individually. (...) His artistic career began with painting. He studied with Z. Pronaszko, E. Eibisch and J. Fedkowicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Ironically, growing out of the tradition of color painting, Voytovich turned to graphics using only black and white. He said: most of all I like black and white, sometimes I introduce red, blue, gold, silver into graphics, because these are my favorite colors.... It is a paradox that although he always considered himself a painter, his greatest achievement was in graphic design, which he took really seriously."
