Size: 18.8 x 13.9 cm (plate imprint)
Signed on the woodblock l.d.: 'SC', typographically described at the bottom: 'AVIATOR'S GRAVE ... WOODCUT ST. O. CHROSTOWSKI'
The work comes from the book Ku Czci Poległych Lotników. A Souvenir Book, Publishing House of the Committee for the Construction of the Monument in Honor of Fallen Airmen, Warsaw 1933.
State of preservation
unframed
Biography
Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He began studying painting in Moscow (1923-29), and continued his studies 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.
