Size: 25 x 19 cm (in light of passe-partout)
signed and dated in pencil on the middle: 'Edmund Bartłomiejczyk 1932'
On the reverse inscribed in pen: 'EDMUND BARTŁOMIEJCZYK | (1885-1950) | GORAL PROVIDING A HORSE | DRIVING A HORSE | BARKED DRIVER 1932'.
Biography
He was a graphic artist. In 1926 he took over the first chair of graphic design in Poland at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He was a co-founder and member of the "Ryt" association. He was mainly engaged in applied graphics (banknotes, postage stamps, book covers and illustrations, posters, ex-librises, textile and lamp designs), genre, religious and landscape graphics (mainly lithographs and color woodcuts). He had stylizing tendencies influenced by folk and Japanese woodcuts.
