Angel of War

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-481
Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name: Angel of War
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 15.5 x 11.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: symbolic art
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

A flying angel in a helmet is depicted above the ruins of buildings against a black sky. In his right hand, the angel holds a sword, which he uses to defeat an enemy squadron of black aircraft.

Inscriptions

To the right under the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil. To the left, there is an inscription in Polish: "Anioł wojny" ("Angel of War"). On the back at the top, the number "127" is written in a triangle with a pencil, and to the right, there is the number "2063"

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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