Adam SZWARCENBERG-CZERNY (1894-1943), "To get along with everyone? - Or how variously they would like to see the Marshal", 1930

Portfolio of 12 lithographs (plus cover), 30 x 22 cm, each signed on plate.
Preservation condition: sheets very good, cover with numerous traces of use.
The lithographs depict caricatures of Jozef Pilsudski - as a Chinese, Jew, socialist, monarchist, communist, peasant, Christian Democrat, nationalist, among others - with satirical captions, often in verse.
Glosa: Portfolio without publishing data; according to the Central Military Library, this is "a collection of caricatures published around 1930 outside the official bookstore circulation [...]. The caricatures were sold in landed gentry circles." The text accompanying the graphics in the album is in the form of an enumeration, in which the names of parties, political groups and the names of politicians of the Second Republic appear consecutively. The ending of the poem is surprising, but understandable to those who know that Pilsudski had a sense of humor and was amused by jokes and political caricatures. He is said to have even forbidden the censors to interfere with satirical statements about his person.
Adam Czerny - cartoonist, caricaturist. During World War I he served as a captain in the Polish Legions. He was awarded the Order of Virtuti Militari. As an artist he was involved in satirical drawing and portrait caricature. In 1943 he was murdered by the Germans in the Kielce forests.