Andrzej Bartczak, "Exlibris A.M.B. IV"

Silkscreen print, 70x50 cm, no. 17/20, artist’s signature pdr

Andrzej Marian Bartczak (b. 1945 in Kutno, d. 2025) – artist, educator, full professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Painting at the Wł. Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, professor at the Faculty of Arts at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź. He was a member of the International Association of Woodcut Artists XYLON, based in Switzerland. He received numerous awards, medals, and honors at exhibitions and competitions for his artistic work and achievements in teaching at the higher education level in the arts. In 2015, he was awarded the “Gloria Artis” Gold Medal for Merit to Culture. Mieczysław Wasilewski’s works are held, among other places, at the National Museum in Poznań, the Wilanów Poster Museum, the Musée de l’Affiche in Paris, and the Toyama Poster Museum in Tokyo.