Jan NOWAK (1930-2010), "Chorzow I," 1978

etching, aquatint, 21.3 x 22.5 cm, signed in pencil p.d.: J. Nowak 1978; signed in pencil l.d.: Chorzów I.

Painter, printmaker, student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Department of Graphics in Katowice, where he was also an academic teacher. He had numerous solo exhibitions, participated in many exhibitions of Polish art abroad, his works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the National Museum in Warsaw, among others. He has practiced easel painting and lithography. His paintings refer to urban landscape themes, often dominated by circus performers, street musicians and passersby.