KRÓL Zdzisław, GDAŃSK. Podmłyńska Street; signed by the author in pencil, interwar period; linocut black-and-white, condition bdb.; dimensions 305x218 mm; Gdańsk - Podmłyńska Street (linocut 8/16).
Zdzislaw Król (1921-2002) was a Polish graphic artist and painter, as well as a graphic editor associated with Gdansk Pomerania, especially Gdansk. In his teenage years he studied drawing and painting: from 1940 at Professor Alfred Terlecki's Private School of Painting in Cracow, and then until 1942 at the Staatliche Handwerker und Kunstgewerbeschule - the State School of Arts and Crafts in Cracow. During World War II, he was a member of the resistance movement of the Home Army (with the rank of sergeant cadet, alias Green), where he commanded a diversionary patrol of the Cracow region. After the war, he continued his education as a free student at the Faculty of Painting in Cracow under Prof. Władysław Jarocki, and then from 1945 to 1948 studied at the State Institute of Visual Arts (later the Academy of Fine Arts) in Cracow. He graduated from the Department of Applied Graphics (printing). After his studies, he moved to Gdansk (1948), where he lived first in Oliwa and from 1951 in Wrzeszcz. For more than 30 years (from November 15, 1948 to March 31, 1981), he served as graphics editor at local newspapers Głos Wybrzeża and Wieczór Wybrzeża, creating typographic designs, illustrations, vignettes and covers. He was the author of numerous linocuts, lithographs and prints depicting, among other things, daily life, landscapes of Pomerania, monuments of Gdansk and socio-cultural motifs of the region. He participated in exhibitions: including the Autumn Salon of ZPAP (Sopot 1957), the Journalist's Club in Gdansk (1961) and the Officers' Club Gdansk-Wrzeszcz (1962).
