Edmund JOHN

WOMAN IN RED SHIRT Ink, pen, watercolor, 12.5 x 10.5 cm

Signed p.d.: E. John

Edmund JOHN

1894 Warsaw - 1984 Warsaw

Polish architect, graphic artist, painter, educator, author of palindromes. In 1913 he began his studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic, which he continued in 1916-19 at the Warsaw Polytechnic, studying at the same time at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under Stanisław Lentz and Edward Trojanowski. He also studied painting privately with Konrad Krzyzanowski. After graduation, he became an assistant in the Department of Hand Drawing of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. During the 1920 war he volunteered for the army. After the war, he made several art trips. In 1933 he was co-founder and secretary, and from 1937 president of the Circle of Advertising Graphic Artists. After the war, he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Drawing and Painting of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. He painted mainly in watercolor, using his own technique that created a distinctive picture structure. He was also involved in mural painting, including creating a plafond in the National Theater and polychromes in the Old Town Square. He designed postage stamps, ex-librises, banknotes and medals. In the 1920s he co-founded one of the film studios and designed sets for films.

Asking price 500

Estimate 650 - 700