woodcut, paper, 14.5 x 11 cm (inside the passe-partout), 28 x 25 cm (framed with passe-partout), 1940s
Ludwik Tyrowicz (born July 15, 1901, in Lviv; died February 17, 1958, in Łódź) – Polish graphic artist, educator, and bookplate designer.He studied decorative painting at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv under Kazimierz Sichulski, and then from 1923 to 1926 at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the guidance of Władysław Skoczylas, Miłosz Kotarbiński, and Wojciech Jastrzębowski. In 1930, he returned to Lviv, where from 1930 to 1939 he served as a professor of graphic arts at the Lviv Polytechnic and lectured at the Institute of Graphic Arts.During the interwar period, he was a member of the “Ryt” Association of Polish Graphic Artists (which mainly brought together printmakers working in woodcut), the Lviv-based avant-garde “Artes” Association of Visual Artists (which advocated for modern art in the broadest sense); and was a co-founder of the Lviv Union of Graphic Artists.From 1945, he lived in Łódź, where he headed the Department of Graphic Arts at the State School of Fine Arts and taught at the School of Artistic Printing.He practiced various types of printmaking, collected in thematic portfolios (including “Beautiful Lviv,” “Italy,” and “Carpathian Portfolio”). He worked in commercial graphic design and created several hundred bookplates.
