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Triumphal Arch

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

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Basic information
ID
ФМз-Г-IV-502
Author
Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name
Triumphal Arch
Date of creation
1966
Country
Poland
Technique
linocut
Material
paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
14.3 x 9
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
architecture painting
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 rectangular composition. In the park, among tall trees, there is a monumental stone structure (gazebo), the dome of which rests on four columns of the Corinthian order. Birds are flying over the gazebo.
Inscriptions
To the right below the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil and the date "66". On the left is an illegible inscription in Polish (possibly "brama"). On the back at the top, the number "148" is written in a triangle with a pencil. The following is the inscription: "Szuszkiewicz. Triumphal arch, woodcut (?) 1966; 14.3 х 9; 19.2 х 12.3". On the right is the number "2049" in pencil.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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