Dimensions: 15.7 x 13.8 cm (plate imprint)
signed and described in pencil at the bottom: 'etching. | 'Children' | Jurkiewicz'
Condition
unframed
Exhibited
legacy of the artist
collection of the artist's heirs, Warsaw
Literature
cf. Andrzej Jurkiewicz 1907-1967, exhibition catalog, ed. by Maryla Sitkowska, Warsaw 1980, p. 57, item I.191
Biogram
Graphic artist and illustrator; professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and Warsaw. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under F. Pautsch and W. Weiss. He created a series of graphics - etchings depicting street scenes and graphics on sports, maintained in an economical style, cover designs, illustrations, ex-librises; at the end of his life he turned to abstraction. He was the author of the textbook "Methods of Artistic Graphics."
