Dimensions: 61 x 45.5 cm (sheet)
signed, dated and described in pencil at the bottom: 'Closed green hill 2/20 imp. Zygmunt Czyż 79'
Condition
unframed work
Biography
Considered one of the most significant linocut artists in the history of Polish printmaking. He is one of the leading representatives of Polish New Figuration art. He was born in Zachoin as a son of Genowefa and Wawrzyniec. He graduated from the Lyceum of Fine Arts in Jaroslaw, and then in 1958-64 studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma in the atelier of Prof. Waclaw Taranczewski in 1964, also in that year he completed a three-year Pedagogical Study. In 1996, as a result of an accident, he suffered partial paralysis, and from then on he created mainly watercolors. He died in Rzeszow in 2003. He rests in Rzeszow's Wilkowyja cemetery.
