Jan NOWAK (b. 1939), Cognition III, 1975

linocut, print made by hand without the use of a graphic press,
53.5 x 48.3 cm,
signed on p.d.: Jan Nowak 1975; signed on p.d. l.d.: Linocut "Cognition III", monogram on panel on p.d.: JN 1975 II.
A print of the presented print is in the collection of the Silesian Museum in Katowice.
("Honestly. Linocuts by Jan Nowak," Silesian Museum in Katowice, 2014, il. s. 75).

Graphic artist associated with the Silesian art community. In 1958-1959 he studied graphic techniques with Stefan Suberlak at the Visual Arts Center in Katowice. A miner by profession, he worked in the "Katowice" mine for 28 years. He was a co-founder of the circle of artists "Gwarek 58" at the "Katowice" mine. In 1989 he received a permit to practice as a visual artist from the Ministry of Culture and Art. He cultivates linocut, copperplate and drypoint. The artist's works are dominated by the motif of the Silesian landscape and its inhabitants, often depicted with ornamental finesse and richness of thematic solutions. (Maria Fiderkiewicz "Art of the borderland. Between ethnoart and academic art. Catalog of the Silesian Museum collection," Silesian Museum, Katowice, 2007, p. 132).