Woodcut on paper, signed l.d. "S.Rassalski".
Dimensions in frame: 41x32 cm
Stefan Rassalski, a.k.a. "Ster" ( 1910 - 1972 Warsaw) - Polish photographer, graphic artist, painter, poet, journalist, soldier of the Home Army, author of numerous photographs and articles devoted to the wartime destruction of Warsaw and the postwar reconstruction of the city. In 1928-1933, he attended the Free Academy of Painting and Drawing in Lublin, led by Janina Miłosiowa. At that time he took up woodcuts - his earliest works come from this period. At that time he was strongly influenced by Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, Władysław Skoczylas and folk art. In 1933, he was a co-founder of the Lublin-based Painters' Association "Circle," bringing together graduates of the University, whose goal was to "spread the culture of painting in the Eastern Borderlands." In the same year he received his diploma from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He also studied art history at Warsaw University (1933-1936). Stefan Rassalski settled in Warsaw in 1936, where, as a journalist and reporter, he worked with "Kurier Polski", "Kurier Poranny", "Czcia pracy" and "Zwierciadło". At the time, he also did illustrations for novels and youth magazines. He was strongly influenced by his acquaintance with Jerzy Hulewicz, to whom he dedicated an unpublished work during the occupation. His works are in the National Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of the Polish Army, the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the National Digital Archive, as well as in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, the District Museum in Rzeszow and the Ossolineum in Wroclaw.
