Jozef Holewinski(1848-1917), Lady in an armchair,1922

Woodcut, paper, 18 x 13 cm in light passe - partout, signed on panel l.d. "J.HOLEWIŃSKI".


Józef Holewiński (born March 17, 1848 in Warsaw, died January 20, 1917 there) - Warsaw wood engraver, artist-painter, illustrator; one of the prominent Polish xylographers.He studied painting at Wojciech Gerson's Drawing School in Warsaw, while he learned the art of interpretive woodcut from Jan Styfi (from 1864)[1][2]. Under his tutelage, he began working in the wood engraving department of "Kłosy" in 1865; after the magazine's demise in 1890, he moved on to "Tygodnik Ilustrowany", where (from 1891) he served as artistic director; he remained in this position until his death in 1917; for a while he ran the illustration department of the weekly "Wanderer"; he also collaborated with the foreign magazines "Moderne Kunst" and "Gazette des Beaux Arts".Holewinski was repeatedly awarded for his woodcuts: in 1873 he received a diploma of recognition at the Universal Exhibition in Vienna; in 1886 a cash prize and in 1888 first prize at the First and Third Exhibition of Works of Ornamental and Reproductive Art in Warsaw; in 1886 first prize at the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for his woodcut Sabala, engraved according to a drawing by Stanislaw Witkiewicz; in 1895 a gold medal in Munich and a grand silver medal at the Exhibition of Printmaking Art in St. Petersburg.