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Stanisław Jakubowski, A Collection of Proto-Slavic Architectural Motifs [1923]
Title: A Collection of Proto-Slavic Architectural Motifs. Twenty-seven woodcuts.
Author: Stanisław Jakubowski (1885–1964)—drew and engraved [painter, printmaker, and educator; one of the most intriguing figures in interwar Polish woodcut art; a champion of Proto-Slavic motifs].
Publisher: Kraków, published by the “Orbis” Bookstore; printed using typefaces from the Jagiellonian University Printing House; woodcuts printed at the Anczyc & Co. Printing House.
Year of publication: 1923.
Format: 33 cm.
Volume: [7] pp., 20 plates (27 woodcuts on 20 plates)—this piece contains 19 plates.
Binding: Paperback cover.
“A Collection of Proto-Slavic Architectural Motifs” emerged from the search for a native style, which occupied Polish artists and art theorists in the early years of the reborn Republic of Poland. The complete portfolio comprises twenty-seven woodcuts on twenty plates, signed in blocks and printed in black, brown, and dark blue. The engravings depict huts, gates, arcades, shrines, tombstones, temples, and farm buildings. This is a depiction of ancient Slavic culture—more artistically imagined than archaeologically reconstructed—inspired by Polish wooden folk architecture. Jakubowski designed the drawings himself and carved the blocks. The introductory text was printed in Polish, French, and English, indicating that the publisher also anticipated a foreign audience. The portfolio was published by the Kraków bookstore “Orbis”; the text was typeset at the Jagiellonian University Press, and the woodcuts were printed at the renowned Anczyc Press.
Stanisław Jakubowski was born in 1885. He was educated at the School of Woodworking in Stanisławów and later studied painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. For many years, he was an art teacher at secondary schools, a lecturer at the Academy, and a museum conservator. He taught drawing, woodcut, and enamel work. He left behind a vast body of graphic work, including over one hundred bookplates. He devoted several volumes with his own texts to the Proto-Slavic past: in addition to this one, also *The Land of Slavic Fairy Tales* (1929) and *The Gods of the Slavs* (1933). He left behind a manuscript titled “The Origin and Symbolism of Folk Ornamentation in Poland,” containing approximately 1,200 drawings. He died in 1964 in Kraków.
Provenance: no ownership records or seals.
This is the first of Jakubowski’s Proto-Slavic texts, featuring original woodcut prints. A must-have for collectors of interwar Polish woodcuts, researchers of the Slavic movement in art and ornamentation, and enthusiasts of wooden architecture.
The piece is clean, the paper is free of stains, and the descriptive text is uncut. The plates are loose, numbering nineteen—the piece is incomplete compared to the full set of twenty plates. Original paper paperback cover; the entire volume is protected by a modern cardboard backing.
Catalog ID: 13469x1-33-A-X
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Title: A Collection of Proto-Slavic Architectural Motifs. Twenty-seven woodcuts.
Author: Stanisław Jakubowski (1885–1964)—drew and engraved [painter, printmaker, and educator; one of the most intriguing figures in interwar Polish woodcut art; a champion of Proto-Slavic motifs].
Publisher: Kraków, published by the “Orbis” Bookstore; printed using typefaces from the Jagiellonian University Printing House; woodcuts printed at the Anczyc & Co. Printing House.
Year of publication: 1923.
Format: 33 cm.
Volume: [7] pp., 20 plates (27 woodcuts on 20 plates)—this piece contains 19 plates.
Binding: Paperback cover.
“A Collection of Proto-Slavic Architectural Motifs” emerged from the search for a native style, which occupied Polish artists and art theorists in the early years of the reborn Republic of Poland. The complete portfolio comprises twenty-seven woodcuts on twenty plates, signed in blocks and printed in black, brown, and dark blue. The engravings depict huts, gates, arcades, shrines, tombstones, temples, and farm buildings. This is a depiction of ancient Slavic culture—more artistically imagined than archaeologically reconstructed—inspired by Polish wooden folk architecture. Jakubowski designed the drawings himself and carved the blocks. The introductory text was printed in Polish, French, and English, indicating that the publisher also anticipated a foreign audience. The portfolio was published by the Kraków bookstore “Orbis”; the text was typeset at the Jagiellonian University Press, and the woodcuts were printed at the renowned Anczyc Press.
Stanisław Jakubowski was born in 1885. He was educated at the School of Woodworking in Stanisławów and later studied painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. For many years, he was an art teacher at secondary schools, a lecturer at the Academy, and a museum conservator. He taught drawing, woodcut, and enamel work. He left behind a vast body of graphic work, including over one hundred bookplates. He devoted several volumes with his own texts to the Proto-Slavic past: in addition to this one, also *The Land of Slavic Fairy Tales* (1929) and *The Gods of the Slavs* (1933). He left behind a manuscript titled “The Origin and Symbolism of Folk Ornamentation in Poland,” containing approximately 1,200 drawings. He died in 1964 in Kraków.
Provenance: no ownership records or seals.
This is the first of Jakubowski’s Proto-Slavic texts, featuring original woodcut prints. A must-have for collectors of interwar Polish woodcuts, researchers of the Slavic movement in art and ornamentation, and enthusiasts of wooden architecture.
The piece is clean, the paper is free of stains, and the descriptive text is uncut. The plates are loose, numbering nineteen—the piece is incomplete compared to the full set of twenty plates. Original paper paperback cover; the entire volume is protected by a modern cardboard backing.
Catalog ID: 13469x1-33-A-X
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