Jan Marcin Szancer, BOLESŁAW'S GOLDEN DZID

35,3 x 54,7cm - watercolor, gouache, ink brush, paper

watercolor. gouache, ink brush, 35.3 x 54.7 cm (in light passe-partout)

Signed p.d.: jms.



Cover design for the book Bolesław's Golden Spear. Podania, legends and fairy tales of the Lubuska Land, selection and compilation. Janusz Koniusz, foreword by Eugeniusz Paukszta, Wyd. Poznańskie, Poznań 1970.



On the first page of the cover of the published book a fragment of a drawing was used - the figure of a rider with a spear alone. Printed below was the title: ZŁOTA DZIDA BOLESŁAWA | and other Lubuskie legends and tales. The view of the city was probably intended for the fourth page of the cover.



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Jan Marcin Szancer, painter, draughtsman, illustrator, stage designer. In 1920-26 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Jarocki, Józef Mehoffer, Teodor Axentowicz and Karol Frycz, and in 1928-29 under Józef Pankiewicz at the Paris branch of the Academy of Fine Arts. In the 1930s he exhibited paintings and drawings several times, including at the TPSP in Cracow, Poznan and Belgrade. After the war, he mainly took up book illustration,especially children's books. From 1951 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.