Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

graphic material

Physical Description

Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.

Other Title Information

Original Art, Work on Paper

Date

[ca. 1954-1956]

Creator

Mrozewski, Stefan

Physical Condition

Excellent

Notes

Black ink on white paper. Abstract scene with a young man and woman in tattered clothing holding hands and walking on a path, lit up from above by sunrays and a big Torah scroll hanging over them. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series depict life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Printmaker, book illustrator and painter, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czéstochowa, Poland. Mrozewski's prints are in permament collections of several public art collections in Europe and North America. The artist was married to Irena Blizinska. An ardent patriot, he was a volunteer in the Polish Army in the war against the Soviet Union in 1920, as well as during the Second World War when he served in Armia Krajowa, the clandestine Polish Home Army.

Accession No.

2000.69.16

Name Access

Hornstein, Michael

Places

Warsaw, Poland, Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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