MACIEJ MAKAREWICZ (1912 - 2009), FLIGHT OF VALEZIUS

woodcut, paper 27 x 21 cm in light passe - partout

Stefan Maciej Makarewicz (born July 8, 1912 in Cracow, died September 1, 2009) - Polish graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer, teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He was the son of Lviv painter Juliusz Makarewicz. From 1931 to 1937 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Władysław Jarocki, Fryderyk Pautsch, Ignacy Pieńkowski, Karol Frycz and Wojciech Weiss. He received his diploma in 1938. After the war, he began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. From 1946 to 1949, he was assistant to Zbigniew Pronaszko. From 1968-1972, head of the poster studio at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts. Makarewicz held the title of associate professor. For reasons that the Municipal Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party did not accept his application for a professorship, he did not receive the title of professor, despite the full approval of the application by the Senate of the Academy of Fine Arts. He was also artistic director of the Polish Music Publishers in Cracow. He created for the needs of the Church the effect of his activity is more than a hundred realizations of stained-glass windows according to his design, more than a dozen large polychromies and frescoes, numerous paintings of religious themes and Stations of the Cross.