woodcut, paper, 20 x 15 cm
woodcut, paper, 20 x 15 cm in light passe - partout, signed on woodcut plate p.d. "S.C."
RWD-6 - Polish tourist-sport aircraft, constructed by the RWD construction team especially for the Challenge competition in 1932.
In this aircraft with the starting number "06", Żwirko and Wigura won the prestigious Challenge International de Tourisme competition from August 20-28, 1932 in Berlin.
Less than a month after the competition, on September 11, 1932, the RWD-6 SP-AHN suffered an accident near Cieszyn, already in Czechoslovakia, while flying in a thunderstorm to an air show in Prague. The plane crashed in a forest near Cierlick, and its crew (Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura) suffered death.
Stanislaw Ostoja-Chrostowski (1900-1944) - Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. 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.
