Ludwik Tyrovich (1901-1958), Bathing Women

woodcut, paper, 13.5 x 10 cm (composition), 34 x 24.5 cm (sheet), 1940s

Ludwik Tyrowicz (born July 15, 1901 in Lviv, died February 17, 1958 in Lodz) - Polish graphic artist, educator, creator of ex-libris.He studied decorative painting at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv under Kazimierz Sichulski, then in 1923-1926 at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Władysław Skoczylas, Miłosz Kotarbiński and Wojciech Jastrzębowski. In 1930 he returned to Lviv, where from 1930-1939 he was a professor of graphic arts at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute and taught at the Institute of Graphic Arts.In the interwar period he was a member of the Association of Polish Graphic Artists "Ryt" (bringing together mainly woodcut printmakers), the Lviv avant-garde Association of Visual Artists "Artes" (advocating modern art in the broadest sense); he was a co-founder of the Lviv Association of Graphic Artists.Since 1945 in Lodz, where he led the Department of Graphic Arts at the State School of Fine Arts and taught at the School of Artistic Printing.He cultivated various types of printmaking, collected into thematic portfolios (including Beautiful Lviv, Italia, Teka Karpacka). He was engaged in applied graphics, and was the author of several hundred ex-librises.