Watercolor on paper, signed and dated undated "M. Malina 64"
Dimensions in frame: 63x51 cm (40x27 cm)
Marian Malina (Sosnowic 1922 - 1985 Sosnowiec) - studied 1945-1948 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jerzy Fedkowicz, Konrad Srzednicki and Andrzej Jurkiewicz. He then took a job at his alma mater in the evening drawing studio and in the Lithography Studio of Prof. Konrad Srzednicki, whose assistant he was until 1953. He continued teaching at the Graphic Arts Department until 1962. He was involved in printmaking (mainly in woodcut and linocut techniques and in his own cellography technique - prints from a celluloid matrix) and painting. He was a member of the MARG groups (since 1957), "Zagłębie" and the International Association of Wood Engravers XYLON in Switzerland, as well as the AIAP National Committee. He exhibited at all editions of the National and, since 1966, the International Biennial of Printmaking in Cracow (1960-1976), similarly - at subsequent editions of the "Golden Grape" Symposium in Zielona Gora (1965-1979), and at many individual and group exhibitions. He won prizes and awards in the Olympic competitions 1948, 1952, 1956, an award and a medal at the First International Woodcut Exhibition, Banska Bystrica 1972. His works are represented in many important museum collections and printmaking cabinets at home and abroad.
