Jan NOWAK (b. 1939), Zagrom Ci na cyji, 2021

linocut, print made by hand without the use of a graphic press,
59.3 x 70.3 cm,
signed on p.d.: Jan Nowak 2021; signed on p.d. l.d.: Linocut 12/15 "Zagrom Ci na cyji", monogram on panel p.d.: JN 1975 II.
The featured linocut is one of Jan Nowak's most recent works and has never been published.

Graphic artist associated with the Silesian art community. In 1958-1959 he studied graphic techniques with Stefan Suberlak at the Visual Arts Center in Katowice. A miner by profession, he worked in the "Katowice" mine for 28 years. He was a co-founder of the circle of artists "Gwarek 58" at the "Katowice" mine. In 1989 he received a permit to practice as a visual artist from the Ministry of Culture and Art. He cultivates linocut, copperplate and drypoint. The artist's works are dominated by the motif of the Silesian landscape and its inhabitants, often depicted with ornamental finesse and richness of thematic solutions. (Maria Fiderkiewicz "Art of the borderland. Between ethnoart and academic art. Catalog of the Silesian Museum collection," Silesian Museum, Katowice, 2007, p. 132).