Dimensions: 31.5 x 9 x 12.5 cm
Signed and numbered on the bottom: '3/8 MR'
Cast by Antoni Rząsa Gallery in Zakopane, based on a wooden figure from 1957, a gift for the artist's friend Tadeusz Brzozowskig
Biography
He studied at the School of Wood Industry in Zakopane in 1938. After World War II, he continued his education at the same school, since 1947 called the State Secondary School of Visual Arts, under the direction of Antoni Kenar. He graduated in 1952 and immediately afterwards took a position there as a sculpture teacher. His close cooperation with Kenar lasted until his death in 1959. He was an heir to the late director's pedagogical and aesthetic ideas, which he continued throughout his work at the school, i.e. until 1973. Soon after he left the school, in 1974, Rząsa began to build and furnish an author's gallery of his sculptures, which he opened to the public in 1976. The formal roots of Rząsa's art lie in folk sculpture, as well as in nature itself - the sculptor followed the natural shape of trunks and branches (he created almost exclusively in wood). The expressive power of his works derives from the character and disposition of the artist.
