Size: 19 x 14.2 cm (plate imprint)
Signed on the woodblock l.d.: 'SC' Inscribed at the bottom: 'DAWN OF AVIATION. and typographically described and signed on the plate p.d.: 'DRZEWORYT ST. O. CHROSTOWSKI.
The work comes from the book In Honor of Fallen Airmen. Memorial Book, Publishing House of the Committee for the Construction of the Monument in Honor of the Fallen Airmen, Warsaw 1933.
State of preservation
unframed
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 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.
