Vladislav LAM (1893 -1984), Sancho Pansa with a friend

Woodcut, paper; 22 x 20 cm (in light passe -partout).
Wladyslaw Lam - painter, printmaker and art critic born in Konjic, Bosnia. Already in early childhood he was noticed to have a talent for painting. In 1912-1918 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (among others with Teodor Axentowicz, Jozef Mehoffer). In 1925 he was in Paris, from where he traveled to the south of France, where he painted many landscape studies and architectural views. In the interwar years, he taught drawing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic, and after World War II at the Gdansk Polytechnic and the School of Fine Arts in Sopot. He was a member of several art groups, exhibiting with the Guild of Artists "Jednoróg" and the "New Generation" group, among others. In addition, he participated in numerous exhibitions abroad, including the international exhibition in "Art and Technology" in Paris (1937), the world exhibition in New York (1939); he also exhibited in Brussels (1926, 1929), Stockholm (1927), Amsterdam (1929), Philadelphia (1933), Hamburg (1935), Munich and Tokyo (1939), Berlin 1947, Vienna (1949). He had several solo exhibitions in the country. He was the author of books and paintings. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits and figural compositions. His early works show a fascination with the art of Wyspianski, later the artist became interested in the experience of Cubism and, in time, Post-Impressionism. The work of the 1950s is associated with the trend of allusive abstraction. In addition to painting, the artist was also involved in printmaking.