Stairs to the Fountain ("Grand Staircase")

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-490
Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name: Stairs to the Fountain ("Grand Staircase")
Date of creation: 1966
Country: Poland
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 14 x 8.9

Additionally

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 work depicts a city street. In the centre of the composition is a wide grand staircase leading to a fountain. People are going up and down the stairs, which have houses on both sides.

Inscriptions

To the right under the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil and the date "66". To the left, there is an inscription in Polish: "Wielkie schody" ("Grand Staircase"). On the back at the top, the number "136" is written in a triangle with a pencil. There is an inscription: "Szuszkiewicz Stairs to the Fountain, woodcut; 14 x 8.9; 17.5 x 10.5". To the right, the number "2037" is written in pencil.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Stairs to the Fountain ("Grand Staircase")

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