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Greeting Card

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-491
Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name: Greeting Card
Date of creation: 1965
Country: Poland
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions: 14.2 x 9.7 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: postcard
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1912–1982
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland
Biography: Jozef Szuszkiewicz (1912, Lviv, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 1982, Tarnow, Poland) was a painter, graphic artist, and one of the founders of the Ludwik Solski Theatre in Tarnow. Teacher and director of the Lyceum of the Arts in Tarnow. Szuszkiewicz studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Tadeusz Pruszkowski’s and Leon Wyczolkowski’s guidance. He participated in the Polish September Campaign of 1939, during which the Germans took him prisoner. After his release, the artist returned to Lviv, where he stayed until 1944. He later moved with his family to Tarnow. Member of the Association of Polish Artists, Jozef Szuszkiewicz participated in the first three national Biennales of Graphics in Krakow (1960, 1962, 1964) and also exhibited his works at the 10th World Congress of Ex Libris (Krakow, 1964). The artist’s solo exhibitions occurred in many cities across Poland and abroad. Szuszkiewicz’s work includes landscapes, portraits, still lifes, graphics, ex-libris designs, and projects for stained glass and polychromy for churches and chapels. His works are preserved in the Tarnow, Katowice, Wroclaw, and Lviv museums.

Object description

The work is a greeting card that folds in half. In the centre of the black rectangle with rounded corners outlined in white, there is a Gothic church depicted with two tall towers, each topped with flags. The dome of the structure is crowned with a six-pointed star and crescent. The silhouette of the Holy Family is visible in the central portal. Surrounding the rectangle is the inscription: "Najlepsze życzenia z okazji świąt bożego narodzenia i nowego roku 1966". The card does not contain any handwritten greeting text.

Inscriptions

To the right under the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil and the date "65". To the left, there is an inscription: "SV 42 / 150." On the back at the top, the number "137" is written in a triangle with a pencil. There is an inscription: "Szuszkiewicz Greeting Card for 1966, linocut (?); 13 x 9; 14.2 x 9.7". To the right, the number "2038" is written in pencil. On the reverse side, there is an image stamped in purple ink: "Jozef Szuszkiewicz / Tarnow / ul.Urwana № 109".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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