Jan Marcin Szancer (1902-1973), Untitled

watercolor / 28 x 38 cm
34.5 x 44 cm, dimensions with frame
signature p.d.: 'jms'
inventory number: UK/mn/25/11/2020/2
ORIGIN:
private collection
Jan Marcin Szancer, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer, costume designer, known mainly as an illustrator of children's books, regular collaborator of Jan Brzechwa. Professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Born November 12, 1902 in Cracow, died March 21, 1973 in Warsaw. His drawings have passed into the canon of children's literature. One of the most prominent Polish illustrators of the 20th century, called the "king of illustrators" or "painter of children's dreams," he became famous as the illustrator of some 300 books. Among them are: "Mr. Kleks Academy," "About Janek, who sewed shoes for dogs," "Pinocchio," "Mr. kitty was sick," "About dwarfs and orphan girl Marysia," "Brzechwa to children," "Locomotive," "Turnip," "Bird radio," "Nutcracker," Andersen's "Fairy tales," "Paddington Bear," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." For adults, he illustrated "Fairy Tales" and "Satires" by Ignacy Krasicki, "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz, Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz, books by Amicis, Collodi, Cervantes, Hašek, Edith Nesbit, Pushkin, Swift, Twain. Szancer's oeuvre includes illustrations for about 300 book titles, designs for more than 500 postcards, 60 stage designs, 20 posters, as well as a series of postage stamps, ex-librises and oil paintings.