Wladyslaw Skoczylas. Woodcut. Profile of Janosik, 1923.
Woodcut on tint, paper. Art supplement to the starred "Tygodnik Ilustrowany". 21.5 x 21.3 cm (print). Unsigned. Framed in a frame.
Wladyslaw Skoczylas (1883-1934), one of the most prominent Polish graphic artists, creator of the Polish school of wood engraving, painter, educator, member of the Polish Formists group, co-founder of "Rytm" and "Rytu". He was educated in Vienna and at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts under Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski. In Paris, he studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle and in Leipzig, at the Academy of Graphic Arts (1912-13). Recognized as the creator of modern Polish woodcut. In 1922-34 he held the chair of artistic printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and from 1932 was a professor at the academy. In his work, he readily drew on folk folklore, especially often the Podhale region.
