Size: 23 x 16 cm (clear passe-partout)
Signed on the woodblock l.d.: 'SC', typographically described at the bottom: 'TO FLY, AND NOT TO BE PASSED BY.... (Wyspiański 'Wedding')."
The work comes from the book To Honor Fallen Airmen. A Book of Memorabilia, Published by the Committee for the Construction of the Monument Ku Czci Poległych Lotników, Warsaw 1933.
Biography
Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He began studying painting in Moscow (1923-29) and continued his studies 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 woodcut. 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.
