Stairs in the City ("Narrow Stairs")

Jozef Szuszkiewicz

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-495
Author: Jozef Szuszkiewicz
Name: Stairs in the City ("Narrow Stairs")
Date of creation: 1966
Country: Poland
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 14 x 8.8

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, there is a narrow staircase that people climb. Houses are to the left and right of the stairs, and a long black fence stretches to the right.

Inscriptions

To the right below the image, there is the artist's signature in pencil and the date "65"; on the left is an inscription in Polish: "Wąskie schody" ("Narrow stairs"). On the back at the top, the number "141" is written in a triangle with a pencil. The following is the inscription: "Szuszkiewicz. Stairs in the city, woodcut (?); 14 x 8.8; 17.5 x 11". On the right is the number "2043" in pencil.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Stairs in the City ("Narrow Stairs")

Other