Dimensions: 20.5 x 23 cm
Signed on woodblock p.d: 'S.C'; signed in pencil l.d. below the representation: 'St. O.-Chrostowski'.
Literature
Agata Pietrzak, Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski (1900-1947), Warsaw 2007, item 151, p. 171 (il.)
Biography
Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He began his studies in painting in Moscow (1923-29) and continued his education 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 woodcuts. 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.
