Dimensions: 64 x 42.5 cm
signed, dated and described in pencil at the bottom: '"After the Harvest" 1/20 Zygmunt Jan Januszewski 1978'.
Condition
framed
Biography
Draughtsman and graphic artist, creator of award-winning author's books and posters. Studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (graduated in 1981) under the direction of professors Jerzy Tchórzewski, Janusz Przybylski and Janusz Stanny. During the decade of martial law, he was active abroad - in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He published drawings in Die Welt, Sudeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit, as well as posters for theaters in Bielefeld, Bonn and St.Gallen. In 1989 he had a solo exhibition at the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hannover, prestigious for press drawing. Since 1989 he has collaborated with Gazeta Wyborcza, and later also with Polityka , Rzeczpospolita, Tygodnik Powszechny, and above all with the Polish-German magazine Dialog, which he co-founded in 1987. From 2000 he was a professor at the Summer Academy of Visual Arts in Salzburg, and in 2002 he took over the Illustration Studio at the Warsaw Academy after Professor Stanny.
Januszewski created more than 3,000 drawings, was awarded many times (including the Printer of the Year Award in Edinburgh, 1996) and presented his works in more than 100 solo exhibitions in Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and France. He was a poetic personality. He was friends with writers and artists. He corresponded with Georg Baselitz and Slawomir Mrozek, among others. As a printmaker, he experimented with noble techniques: etching, aquatint, dry relief printing. He reproduced unique color graphics from many plates. His collection of prints is in the Tatra Museum in Zakopane and in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and Poznan, the Poster Museum in Wilanow, the Museum of Caricature in Warsaw, as well as in private collections in Poland and abroad.
