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Square in the City

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-501
Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name: Square in the City
Date of creation: 1966
Country: Poland
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm (height x width)

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Type: graphic art
Genre: cityscape
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 engraving depicts a city square with two- and three-storey buildings among the trees. People are walking along the street, and vehicles are moving. In the foreground, on the left side, is a corner of a house and an electric pole.

Inscriptions

To the right below the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil and the date "66". On the left is the inscription "Rynek" in Polish. On the back at the top, the number "147" is written in a triangle with a pencil. The following is the inscription: "Szuszkiewicz. Square in the city, 1966, woodcut (?); 9 х 14; 12.4 х 19". On the right is the number "2048" in pencil.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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