Title: Lublin Brama Krakowska / "LUBLIN BRAMA KRAKOWSKA".
Author: Stanislaw Raczynski
Item description:
Notes: Preserved entire board
About the author: Stanislaw Raczynski (1.06.1903 Wadowice - 29.10.1982 Krakow) painter, stage designer and printmaker for workshop and utility, occasional sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Cracow from 1920 to 1927 under Ignacy Pienkowski, Teodor Axentowicz and Wojciech Weiss, and additionally in graphic design under Jan Wojnarski. During his studies he took an artistic trip to Italy. He spent the years 1928-1930 in Poznań (including illustrations for "Rainbow"), then stayed on scholarship in Paris and again in Cracow, where he worked with the press ("Płomyk", "Świerszczyk" and the advertising department of "Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny"). In 1933 he received the Feliks Jasieński Graphic Prize of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He spent the occupation period in Wieliczka, and after the war settled in Cracow. At that time he created numerous projects for publications mainly on the subject of children's literature, while in workshop graphics he created in various graphic techniques, but primarily in woodcut, where he initially remained under the influence of Władysław Skoczylas. His rich graphic output, numerous woodcut portfolios; see Grońska 1971 p. 440 and much more extensively Mulczynski 1996 pp. 343-345
Additional information:
Condition:
Item in very nice condition, lack of publisher's passe-partout
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no defects, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
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