Ink, pen, watercolor, paper; 49 x 39 cm (w/light p-p)
Signed medr. d.: Andrzej Will
Andrzej WILL
1914 Warsaw - 1992 Wroclaw
Polish painter, graphic artist, illustrator. In his youth he earned his living: he worked occasionally as a draftsman-illustrator in a monastic publishing house, and painted church polychromes during vacations. He began his studies at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting in Warsaw (1938), and then studied in the studio of Felicjan Kowarski of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (1938-39), doing satirical drawing, painting and printmaking. He fought in the September campaign, during the occupation in the Home Army. As a caricaturist, he regularly collaborated with the underground press. After the Warsaw Uprising, he was arrested and deported to a labor camp in Breslau. There he also drew, documenting the fate of the prisoners. After liberation, he remained in Breslau, where he joined in organizing the city's artistic life, among other things as graphic manager of the weekly New Signals and the monthly Odra. From 1947 to 1956 he was also a lecturer at the State Higher School of Fine Arts, co-founder of the Wrocław Group, originator, co-organizer and long-time chairman of the International Triennial of Drawing. He took part in about 300 national and international exhibitions of painting and graphics, participated in shows of Polish art abroad, and organized dozens of solo exhibitions.
Asking price 2000
Estimate 2500 - 3000
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