Size: 15.5 x 16 cm (print)
Signed and described in pencil at the bottom: 'Cross at the Crossroads Ant. Serbeński'
Condition
framed work
Biography
After high school graduation, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where his teachers included Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski. He did not pass the final exam until 1918 - his studies had been interrupted earlier by the outbreak of World War I and his forced conscription into the Austrian army. In 1918-1920, he volunteered to serve in the Polish army. In 1920-1931 he was a teacher in Wielkopolska schools: in Rawicz, in the Male Gymnasium in Inowrocław (there he made the acquaintance of Jan Kasprowicz), and in the Male Gymnasium in Ostrów Wielkopolski. He participated in the preparatory work for the Poznan National Exhibition in 1929. In 1931 he settled permanently in Ostrzeszow, where he devoted himself entirely to creative work. In 1941-1942 he taught secretly there, and in 1943 was deported to labor for refusing to paint a portrait of Adolf Hitler.
