Title: District Museum in Radom. Year of foundation 1910. nature and environmental protection of the Radom Region, painting, sculpture, graphics, posters, handicrafts art. XV-XX century, history, archaeology, numismatics, weapons, history of Radom and the Region, socio-political problem exhibitions
Author: Witold Chomicz
Item description:
Notes: Small format poster.
Note: the catalogs of the social life documents departments of Polish scientific libraries qualify this type of ephemeral print unequivocally as posters practically regardless of dimensions (popularly, though incorrectly, this type of object is referred to as mini- posters, leaflets or even window stickers)
About the author: Witold Chomicz (1.11.1910 Kyiv - 15.03.1984 Cracow) well-known Cracow painter and graphic artist, educator. Graduated in 1932 from the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry (PSSZiPA) in Cracow (studied from 1927-1932, from 1929-1932 at the Special Department of Graphic Arts), from 1932-1934 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw in the studios of painting and graphic arts (with Tiche, Skoczylas, Bartłomiejczyk and Lenart), after graduating from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1934 to 1937 he was an assistant at the Applied Graphics Department of the PSSZiPA in Cracow, from 1937 he was a professor at the Graphic Arts Department of the State Institute of Fine Arts in Cracow, and from 1950 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Cracow, where he headed the Department of Book Graphics. Known primarily as an outstanding applied graphic artist - designs for posters, books and accoutrements, he also created workshop graphics in woodcut technique, less frequently lithography and linocut in a small number of prints, educator of several generations of outstanding Polish illustrators. His main inspiration was Polish folk art and folklore; see Magdalena Laskowska: Witold Chomicz 1910-1984 from the collection of Ziyad Raoof. Kraków: National Museum, 2012 pp. 167 ff.
Literature: Witold Chomicz 1910-1984 from the collection of Ziyad Raoof. Kraków: National Museum, 2012 does not list this poster!!! (poster pp. 280-284 and other objects on the following pages)
Additional information:
Condition:
Item in very nice condition
Grading of the state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no defects, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
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