Zdzisław CZERMAŃSKI (1900-1970), Portrait Study,1926

Lithograph 47 x 33 cm in light of original passe - partout from the period.

The lithograph in question comes from a portfolio that Pilsudski had hung for himself at the Belvedere.
Zdzislaw Czermanski (born 1900 in Cracow, died January 27, 1970 in New York) - Polish
graphic artist-cartoonist, painter, author of memoirs, and a legionnaire and officer in the Polish Army.
From 1920 he published caricatures of personalities from the world of politics in the weekly "Szczutek",
later also in "Barber of Warsaw." His caricatures were devoid of malicious
deformations and were liked by the portrayed persons. Jozef Pilsudski ordered the hanging of 13
of his caricatures on the walls of the Belvedere.
In 1923-1924 he studied drawing and painting with Kazimierz Sichulski at the Municipal
Lviv Industrial School. In 1925 he went to Paris, where he continued his studies with
Fernand Léger. In 1930 there was a solo exhibition of his works at the Charpentier Gallery.
From France he left for England, where he drew for "Graphic" magazine, and in 1931 he went to the US
at the invitation of "Fortune Magazine," with which he worked until 1934.
In 1935 he returned to Poland and began working with "Literary News". W 1939
he organized an exhibition "100 Great Poles" in the pavilion of the Institute of Art Propaganda.
At the beginning of World War II, through Vilnius, Scandinavia, France, Portugal and Brazil
he reached New York in 1941. He again began working with "Fortune" and the magazines
"Look" and "Life".At the end of his life he made a series of 50 portraits of world personalities,
purchased by the University of Texas at Austin.