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Greeting Card

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-499
Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name: Greeting Card
Date of creation: 1966
Country: Poland
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions: 14.9 x 10.5 cm (height x width)

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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 with an angel flying through the sky at the top. The angel holds a horn of plenty, scattering snowflakes over the ground. The lower part of the card depicts a Gothic church with two tall towers crowned with flags. The dome of the building is crowned with a cross. The Star of Bethlehem shines above the building. In the central portal of the temple, one can see the silhouette of the Holy Family. An inscription is arranged below the image: "Najserdeczniejsze życzenia świąteczne i noworoczne 1967". The card does not contain a handwritten greeting.

Inscriptions

To the right below the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil and the date "66". On the back at the top, the number "145" is written in a triangle with a pencil. The following is the inscription: "Szuszkiewicz. Greeting card, 1966; 11.9 х 7.7; 14.9 х 10.5". On the right is the number "2046" in pencil.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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