Jan Lebenstein (1930-1999), Napoleon drives out the Chichy, 1974

Color lithograph, dimensions: 70 x 50 cm
LITERATURE:
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, transl. Teresa Jeleńska, Krakow 1990, p. 111 (ill.).

Jan Lebenstein (1930 - 1999) is one of the most important Polish postwar artists. He studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch and Artur Nacht-Samborski. He gained international recognition with the Grand Prix award at the Biennale of the Young in Paris (1959); he soon settled in Paris, consistently developing his own language of figuration - from "axial figures" to later, fantastic-symbolic representations with animal and mythological themes.